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- The Mindset Of Peak Performers
Hey , so far you know
You can improve at anything if you put in time and effort.
You should praise how hard you're working, not your natural talents
You should stop judging yourself for making mistakes.
Today we'll go deeper into step 3. You'll learn what high performers do to learn and improve faster.
When you face difficulties, you get stress, anger, or whatever. We usually label those as bad. But they're core to a growth mindset.
I'm talking about the urge to clench your fists, scream at yourself, jitter your legs, feel like you want to hit something, and give up. These give you a physiological response that supports learning.
Here's a study from Nature. They explain how every chemical and hormone changes for the better in people who accept this physiological response. Compared to those who see label them as bad.
The 'threat response' group labels these emotions as bad. The other group labels them as helpful and performance-enhancing. .
They showed that you can change the chemicals that hold you back into ones that make you better. Again, fascinating. Thoughts change your physiology.
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First, the fact that you're uncomfortable means that you're in neuroplasticity. It means that you are changing and improving. So the emotions show you that your efforts are paying off. Learning isn't supposed to be easy. But it's worth every second.
Look at Goggins. When he's suffering. He knows that the bigger the pain, the better the result. Look at Kobe when he's all in. If he didn't have that mentality, he wouldn't be Kobe.
This mentality makes them grow. They reshape the entire 'stress' response and make it work for them. So forget 'growth mindset', this mindset makes you unstoppable.
So when you start to feel weird today. If you try to approach a stranger (Sarah), do a cold shower (Evan), hit your new PR (Andrew), or need to solve a software bug (Samarth).
Remind yourself that stress, challenge, and struggle are good for you.
Unless you’re on summer vacation, take the next 10 seconds to think of a challenge you will face today and how it will make you improve in the long-run.
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