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“”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. InDo 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 RealityPillar 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.
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by Nathan Rumans
Toughness redefined
This book found me when I was feeling despondent. I was feeling helpless against forces larger than myself and hopeless in a world that seems to be making strange choices that will inflict more harm than good. How to continue to battle, to grit it out, was looking insurmountable.Steve Magness provides a great counterpoint to the American idea of Toughness; one that promotes empathy, embracing reality, and reframing our situations in a grounded, realistic way that is encouraging and ultimately more rewarding than the old thoughts of Toughness that focused on suppression and grinding ourselves into the ground. This is a great book to read if you’re looking for perspective and to slow things down in a world that continues to expect more and more from an individual, at a faster pace, and to no conceivable end.Slow down, take your time, and enjoy the read.
by Claudia Kelly
A good read
I like the sentiment of this book. I think it would have been even better if there was clearer guidance on how to translate it into actionable strategies in real life. For example, some summary points at the end of each chapter or an action plan at the end of the book would have been useful. Or even a table summarising all of the toughness maxims.
by B Shuford
Better than I expected.
I expected that this book would help me be a tough guy, I guess. To stop being whiny and wimpy. But the focus is different, the focus is much more honest and valuable. There is genuine value in reading this book. There is a lot of research quoted and pointed out, and there is a lot of excellent explanation. Highly recommended.
by AC
An interesting and thoughtful read
This was an interesting book and surprisingly not fluffy in how it articulates real inner toughness from avoidance or bear knuckles toughness.
by Shahid f. Khalid
Great read
This is an interesting book touching on the fallacious beliefs of toughness and those coached to the athletes to make them perform better.This book gives a lot of ways to distinguish between actually acting tough and being tough from the inside.
by shannon
Well
It was a completely mismatch book for me. I thought of something else and I thought I would find the answer in this book. However, this book was about something else as psychological analysis than stories. The book was generally well written with a bunch of information. Maybe good for sports management majors rather than ordinary readers like me.
by DJV
Overall a solid read
There is a ton of good information in the book. I did find some of the reasoning to be contradictory. I didn’t agree with some of his focused vs big picture analogies. It was hard to follow in that section of the book and I think his point was not made clear.
by Lisa Lisa
A great gift for someone going through a hard time.
This is seriously such a good gift for someone going through a hard time. Do you ever have a friend or family member have a difficult time and you just tell them, âwell if thereâs anything I can do please let me know.â Instead of not taking action, this is a beautiful thing to do for someone.This book reinforces the beauty you can find in hard times. Itâs not cheesy but rather gives practical examples to anyone as a reminder that hard times can help your character and perseverance in so many ways. I highly recommend as a thoughtful gift.
by Camila
The best book from Steve Magness, in my opinion. I recomend it to everyone who wants to grow as an athlete and as a person.
by emilyrudow
In Do Hard Things, Steve combines interesting science-backed research with his own personal in-the-trenches experience to provide an actionable (and highly practical) guide on how to develop real toughness and inner confidence. I loved the structure of the book and the toughness maxims smattered throughout. Iâve been a huge fan of Steveâs work for years. His books, podcasts, and blog posts have transformed me as a writer, an athlete, and has helped make me an overall, happier person.I couldnât wait for this book to hit the shelves and can say with full confidence that this is Steve’s best work yet. I cannot recommend Do Hard Things enough (+ also canât wait to read it again)!
by Max Dürschlag
Wissenschaftliche Untermalungen unterscheidet das Buch erfreulicherweise von den ganzen Erfolgs- und Motivations”profis”.
by Alex .
I found this book deeply transformative and inspiring. I have been following ACT therapy for Anxiety which has been life changing… and this fine book fills in the blanks, for me a great combination with books by Dr Claire Weekes and her followers (* Barry McDonagh “Dare Response.” and *Carl James “It’s only Anxiety “.)Very well written, perceptive and Wise.A must buy.
by AnthCa
Very detailed and very well written. An amazing book.