How Nervous People Can Perform Under Pressure - Steve Magness

Running a 401 mile in high school is SO insane 🤯

I experience this on a smaller scale. When I make art for myself, I enjoy the process. If I’m entering a show where my art will be judged, it’s anxiety producing.

Hello you savages. Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Here's the timestamps: 00:00 Talented People Who Struggle to Reach Their Potential 04:51 The Price of Your Own Expectation 11:43 How Pressure Impacts Performance 16:36 Performance Experiments in Rugby 20:09 How Our Mindset Impacts Our Biology 31:34 Evidence-Based Strategies to Reframe Pressure 39:48 The Benefits of Having a Support Group 51:14 Dealing With Fear of Failure 1:00:40 How Important Are Goals & Values? 1:06:49 Where to Find Steve

Per the last part of the convo about exploration versus high stakes obsession, Rachel Wrigley on YouTube is a resource for exploration and healing from food/exercise obsession and growing in making goals not related to weight loss outcomes (that seem to always backfire into binges). This topic is what kept coming to mind as I listened to this podcast. It relates a lot.

This makes so much sense

5:44 - I'm never going to write a book that does more than the psychology of money.

I was an overachiever growing up - sports, academics, social, pretty much everything. I had two massive chokes - one in baseball on an all-star team at 14 and I never played another game, and one in basketball my senior season, basically ending what should have been my pinnacle year. My parents are both anxious and it took me years to realize that my Achilles heel was/is mental: bad self talk, being negative, quitting if I determined "it's not worth the effort", etc. It's still a challenge to this day (I'm 48) though I also had leukemia when I was 28, and that didn't help, to say the least. Anyway, this has been great to listen to. Thank you Chris. You have great guests, great discussions, and discuss topics that really matter on an individual level that can help people make personal growth.

Off the Wall being followed up by Thriller came to mind during your opening exchanges.

Watching this while anxious , hits you differently

Fantastic discussion Excellent analysis Thank You Gentlemen