A 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 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.
About the Author :
Steve Magness?is a world-renowned expert on performance and bestselling author of?Do Hard Things and Win the Inside Game. He is the co-host of the podcast?Excellence, Actually, ?and co-founder of?The Growth Equation. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and?Sports Illustrated. Magness has served as a performance coach and consultant for teams and individuals in the MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, Premier League, the US military, and numerous companies and organizations. He lives in Houston, Texas.
Mike Chamberlain is an actor and voice-over performer in Los Angeles whose audiobook narration has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards. His voice credits range from radio commercials and television narration to animation and video game characters. Stage trained at Boston College, he has performed works from Shakespeare and the classics to contemporary drama and comedy.
Review :
"Mike Chamberlain's youthful tone and vocal personality are perfect for this encouraging news...His virtuoso performance ignites curiosity about how to face the crucial challenges of life."
--AudioFile "AudioFile"
"We're past the days of 'no pain, no gain.' Steve Magness, elite running coach and performance guru, on what toughness looks like now."
--GQ "GQ"
