Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

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“In Do Hard Things, Steve Magness beautifully and persuasively reimagines our understanding of toughness. This is a must-read for parents and coaches and anyone else looking to prepare for life’s biggest challenges.”—Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and Talking to Strangers and host of the Revisionist History podcast
From beloved performance expert, executive coach, and coauthor of Peak Performance Steve Magness comes a radical rethinking of how we perceive toughness and what it means to achieve our high ambitions in the face of hard things.
Toughness has long been held as the key to overcoming a challenge and achieving greatness, whether it is on the sports field, at a boardroom, or at the dining room table. Yet, the prevailing model has promoted a mentality based on fear, false bravado, and hiding any sign of weakness. In other words, the old model of toughness has failed us.
Steve Magness, a performance scientist who coaches Olympic athletes, rebuilds our broken model of resilience with one grounded in the latest science and psychology. In Do Hard Things, Magness teaches us how we can work with our body – how experiencing discomfort, leaning in, paying attention, and creating space to take thoughtful action can be the true indications of cultivating inner strength. He offers four core pillars to cultivate such resilience:
Pillar 1: Ditch the Façade, Embrace Reality

Pillar 2: Listen to Your BodyPillar 3: Respond, Instead of ReactPillar 4: Transcend Discomfort

Smart and wise all at once, Magness flips the script on what it means to be resilient. Drawing from mindfulness, military case studies, sports psychology, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, he provides a roadmap for navigating life’s challenges and achieving high performance that makes us happier, more successful, and, ultimately, better people.

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Steve Magness introduces a researched-backed rethinking of resilience, empowering readers to navigate life’s challenges and achieve high performance while maintaining balance and well-being. Performance coach Steve Magness outlines how to move from high-stress survival mode to fulfillment-oriented thriving mode for sustained success.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperOne
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 21, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 006309861X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0063098619
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.05 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #5,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #6 in Popular Applied Psychology #27 in Popular Psychology Personality Study #117 in Success Self-Help
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