Andy Riise, Speaker, Author, Mental Toughness Coach, and now Associate Director of Veteran Engagement for Team Red and White and Blue, a veteran service organization, returns to give us an inside look at mental sensitivity. He explains how we can use this hidden superpower for our greater good. By combining this with regulating ourselves our internal environment, we can build mental toughness and use it to thrive through adversity.
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Episode 1 Quotable moments:
00:40 "So mental toughness is the ability and willingness to execute tasks at the upper range of your potential, regardless of outcomes. Okay, that's a bunch of psycho-babble. So let's get a practical street definition. Mental toughness is getting the most out of what you have to be at your best when it matters the most.”
01:16 “The four Cs of mental toughness are confidence, control, commitment, and challenge. And there's two-step factors for each of those. There's actually a valid and reliable psychometric tool that I use in my athletes, business leaders, and people in healthcare. So those four Cs are really the four elements that make up your mental toughness profile.
03:46 “Mental toughness is a combination of playing psychological defense, which is resilience and mental performance with psychological offense. You bring those together, you get a really good championship combination.”
5:36 “The first step of being a better thermostat is the thermometer, which is self-awareness and you also have to be aware of outside of myself, which is my environment and other people and how they affect me. So it's inside out and outside in terms of my ability to be able to read myself. My internal temperature and the temperature outside of myself.”
7:22 “We haven't developed the coping skills over and allowed our kids to then be able to make mistakes and learn and experiment and fail. We protect them. We wanna make things easier for the next generation. And in some ways, we do them a disservice.”

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