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Do Hard Things
- Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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Summary
National Bestseller
"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 Body
- Pillar 3- Respond, Instead of React
- Pillar 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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- A Larkman
- 20-02-23
Good understanding of real toughness
Good book to help you understand how you become tough at what you do.
Excellent for coaches, athletes and business leaders.
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- Jimmy
- 17-12-22
Not easy
Hardest thing I have done is listen to this twice , it wouldn’t be to be bad if he got the message through its lot quicker time instead of dragging it out , lot of these type books similar theme , not bad author as done some better books in my opinion
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- Neil
- 16-11-23
Sage Advice
A big problem with the self-help genre is that people regard books with a degree of misconception. They see a title and mentally reverse-engineer the title into a solution for their own particular issue or problem. The result ranges from a reading experience that falls short of expectations by varying degrees to down right disappointment. 'Do Hard Things' is a book that aligned exactly with my expectations and perhaps gave a little more. It takes a good long look under the hood of mental resilience and prescribes numerous practical measures on how the reader can start developing his own toughness of the mind. I didn't agree with all of the examples quoted but it certainly gave me a wealth of areas for further reading/research. A thoroughly enjoyable read/listen.
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- Andrew T
- 30-01-23
An ok book
Nothing fundamentally new here, but a good exploration. Like a lot of books of this genre, it’s an overly long discussion of pretty simple ideas.
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- W. Halewood
- 05-04-23
Great book on real toughness
A great book on real toughness and what it requires to achieve it, a great audio book
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- DSLR enthusiast
- 01-02-24
Interesting
An interesting listen with some great insights on what is toughness and how to overcome obstacles😃 I would recommend it to you.
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- Tyron
- 21-02-24
Very interesting read, the insights into what a truly 'tough' individual is and should be is eye opening. Highly recommend.
Enjoyed the whole book, every part of the book is interesting, there is no point where I wanted to just walk away from it.
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- djones
- 29-07-22
A good listen
I am firm believer that the author should narrate their own work. I think it brings more meaning and authenticity. I didn’t enjoy the narrator’s voice and did find it hard to persevere with this book. That’s just a personal opinion and nothing against the narrator. The content is very good and is completely opposite to some “get tough” books. It throws light on a whole new approach to resilience which I enjoyed. I would probably buy the printed book.
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- alena mokitcheva
- 29-09-23
Functional toughness
Liked the differwnt aspects of toughness, all the way from kindheartedness to stoic demeneor.
Narrator voice was sometimes fast for non-english speaker (myself) and monotonous.
Otherwise the stories were fantastic
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- Rohan S.
- 16-12-22
Real toughness explained
Thoroughly enjoyable alternate perspective on toughness and resilience, what it actually is not the cliche we have been taught
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