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Hassan Aziz
@hassana
What It Means to Be Tough
Toughness is experiencing something that is subjectively distressing, and then leaning in, paying attention, and creating space to take a thoughtful action that aligns with your core values.
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Lauren W.
@lau_w51
Key Strategies to Develop Mental Fitness
Managing Letdowns
Every athlete is bound to face at least a few major letdowns in his or her career. When this happens, you want to let yourself feel down for a good 24 to 48 hours.
But afte...
Dealing With Uncertainty
- Prevent it: Do what you can to minimize uncertainty by training like you want to race.
- Manage it: Develop a mantra or automatic actions to fall back when uncertainty strikes.
- Grow from it: View uncertainty as an opportunity to grow. Welcome it on the path to personal growth.
Turning Anxiety into Excitement
Pre-race nerves are common, even amongst professional athletes.
Reframe nerves as excitement. When we do this, we harness heightened perception to raise ourselves up.
Instead of telling yourself, “I’m anxious, I need to calm down,” tell yourself, “I am excited, my body is primed to perform.”
Maxwell D.
@maxwellad116
Why Perspective Taking Is an Essential Skill for Success
What Perspective Taking Is
It’s the ability to take on someone else’s point of view when thinking.
By taking yourself out of the equation, the motivations of your opponent becomes clearer. And by understanding the othe...
Develop perspective taking
- Put aside your feelings so that you can concentrate only on the other person’s perspective.
- Use open ended questions that can help you draw out the interests and motivation that the person may not be verbalizing.
- Be clear about your own position and the weaknesses it has.
- Remove any personal intentions you may have, so as not to project them on to the other person.
- Using what you know about the person, their background, their mood, their intentions and expectations, imagine how they are seeing the current situation.
- Validate their position by paraphrasing back to them what you think their position is.
Using perspective taking
When you break it down, almost every aspect of business involves an element of negotiation.
By honing your perspective taking skills, you are much more likely to come up with solutions that are acceptable to all parties.
Gabriela G.
@gabrielagg80
Why And How You Should Practice Mental Fitness | Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement
Practice mental fitness
Mental fitness simply means to cultivate positive values and keep your mind active towards something that will make you happy.
Mental fitness is the only way to prevent menta...
How to practice mental fitness
- The best way to keep your mind focused, steady, and undisturbed is meditation.
- Read a lot and widely. Learn something new every day, but don’t limit yourself to superficial knowledge.
- Do anything that would challenge your intellect and test your memory.
- Engage in meaningful conversations with the people you love about a wide range of topics.
- Have a hobby.
- Turn off the TV and spend a few days away from the computer.
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