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Jim Loehr

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“Yeah, they can do it on LinkedIn. They can go ahead on my website and indicate that they have an interest or just do that. But they can actually put comments on the LinkedIn. And if they have an interest, we'll definitely get connected. So there are a variety of ways to do it. And I want to make it as easy as possible.”
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“Life any simpler, but you have much more confidence that the decision that you've made is going to be more aligned with who you really want to be through thick and thin. And I would just love to have that request that love to have any feedback that you have around this because I spent the last decade of my life putting that together, researching it, and I just, I'd love to have feedback. So if that's something they can do, I'd love it.”
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“You know, well, first of all, I'd just like to thank you for the opportunity to interact with you. Again, I have great respect for you and what you've done and the impact that you've had. It's stunning. I mean, it's actually, you are a top performer and you're really interested in getting to the nitty gritty of issues. It's not just a normal conversation. There's an authenticity there that I think that's what draws people to, which I think is really a terrific thing. And I feel privileged to be involved in that effort that you're putting forth. And the other thing I would say to our listeners, I would really appreciate as you go through the material and if you can stay with the journaling, I'd love to have feedback. I love data. I love for you to tell me the impact that this has had, how reading the book, what kind of impact, but more importantly, what was the impact of the journaling? And did you get the notion that now you have, it doesn't make moral and ethical.”
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“One of the great reads I would recommend everyone pick up because there's the authenticity in that book. And I knew Andre at the Academy. I've known him all the years. And what a transformation occurred in him. And it was a transformation that should inspire all of us. And it is around the notion of purpose.”
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“He went to number one in the world again and dominated like he had never dominated before. And it wasn't just a flash in the pan. Now it was something he could sustain because he was there for the right reason”
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“Driving him and no fulfillment, and then suddenly he reaches this epiphany about what the purpose of his life was, as Mark Twain said. And he devoted his life to something that was really meaningful. And that was to help kids have something that he always wanted to have himself, security and his education. And so he developed a charter school in all of his fame and all of his tennis legend was devoted to raising money and to making that happen. And in his Hall of Fame induction, he had a couple of the kids who were there and they described what had happened to them because of this school that Andre had funded. Andre became a different person. He became an extraordinary human being in my judgment, and Steffi Graf played a big role in that, but he got his purpose right and he aligned his life with his purpose, and he helped so many people in the process, and he became a much better competitor.”
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“Robert Duvall saying of all the things that he did in his lifetime, what was the one that he actually was most memorable to him? And he said, I became Gus McCray and Lonesome Dove. I became that character. And it's exactly what happened. It was unbelievable how he immersed himself in that person, and he was indistinguishable from that person. When I see a documentary on an athlete and I see them really revealing kind of their inner soul in what the demons they had to face, like Andre, how he had to face so many issues, and he was able to transcend them and become absolutely a entirely different person, someone that we all so admire. And then he ascended to a height that was much greater. He'd become number one. And he had all these demons.”
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“In how he did it. And sometimes I'm a sucker for movies because I get moved. You know, if you were to ask me, what is my favorite? I mean, my favorite movies in some genre, I would say, and probably your audience has no idea what I'm even talking about. But I love the Western genre and I love lonesome dove and the return to lonesome dove. I literally can watch that 10 times and it moves me every single time. I don't know what it is about those two shows that move me so powerfully, but I guess I'm kind of, I love great acting and I love Robert Duvall. I think he's one of the most brilliant actors that brings out such nuances in how people feel. And he became Gus McCray. And Tommy Lee Jones, I mean, I'm”
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“I love ESPNs 30 for 30. I adored the one on Andre Agassi. I love the story, the documentary on Rey Mancini's life. This is, you know, food for my soul. I just love these inside, I love the inside story because that's kind of the world I live in. And a lot of the stories I can't tell, but I have such deep appreciation when the honesty and authenticity of an athlete is out there. I love to be moved. I just love to be moved. So I don't have one that really is, I mean, there have been so many stories on the Dan Jansen, so many documentaries. And there's one that it shows him at the end in the final. And I used to play it a lot when I was hanging around just because it got me up. And I literally cry every single time I watch it. I can't watch it without going into tears because I was so happy for Dan and so joyous with him in what he had achieved.”
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“He doesn't have this big, you know, if you're one of the greatest, if not the greatest ever, you would think you'd be a little arrogant. There's not an arrogant bone in his body. He's just a normal guy that says, yeah, I've been pretty fortunate. I really like what I've done. I love Tens. I have this love affair with tennis, and I will play it till the end of my life as long as I can. But I love my family. I love my life. I love being able to help people. And I'm really fortunate. That's how he talks. That's how we think.”
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“How was Roger going to take this? And he gave this amazing speech after the loss, so gracious, great perspective. And then his coach came up and said, I suppose we'll be canceling the party after this because of what happened. And Roger goes, what? He says, absolutely not. I want to celebrate. I want to be with my friends. I got to the finals. I didn't win. But what an extraordinary opportunity I had here to really push me to my limits. I know things I need to learn, I'll reflect on it, but this in no way I want to go out and have a great time tonight blew everyone away. And that was why the losses didn't eat him alive, because that was the only thing he was on planet Earth for, and that was to win another Grand Slam title and be the greatest ever.”
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“The hope that I can inspire others to the beauty of this game and to how one can do this and give back extraordinarily to great causes. When you look at the impact that Roger and his wife have had on Africa, on educating young boys and girls in Africa, and all the effort he's done, the schools. And I mean, it's absolutely almost unimaginable. And he has committed that even when he didn't have these amazing financial resources that he has now. And he will do it until his last breath. And he has friends that have been with him forever. And he has perspective. I remember a coach that was working with him told me this story. He said, you know, he lost in a five setter and a grand slam. And everyone expected him to win. And he was down to the wire. And I won't say who he was playing against, but obviously it was a great, he had this huge party planned afterwards to celebrate this Grand Slam victory. And everyone, you know, was just thinking, well,”
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“Would accept nothing but total success, would it have deflated some of that and not enabled him to achieve the heights that he would have?”
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“To do things And he ignited his talent. Energy ignites talent. We never know. How much we have until we actually put ourselves on the line. So, what would have happened if during that same period he had spent some of his energy working on his Score card in the way he went to the top, would it have Of the intensity that he would have.”
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“Be a winner. He would accept nothing short of that That eventually he began to realize that it was his And his int That Actually, broke”
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“If you do it right in practice, the intensity of a game is easy. And then when he gets sick and he's in the playoffs and he has the flu And he's not even sure he can get up off the bench. He mobilizes himself. And so the question I have is, what in the heck is driving you? And I think, I mean, I've never had an opportunity to. Down with Michael. I think I've read everything about him, but never had the opportunity to have a conversation with him. I think he would say that he was driven from the earli”
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“He didn't have it, and he became one of the maybe the greatest of all time. Michael was driven. If you had one thing, he didn't show the talent early in his career, but he devoted every single cell in his body. He was mister Intensity. He didn't care what barrier was in front of him, and once team members were solidified, he was going to make everyone better because he wanted to win. He didn't care about anything unless it helped. The team win and for him to be perhaps the greatest ever. He was an extraordinarily powerful influence on everyone around him in terms of stepping up, giving more energy, giving everything you had. He gave everything he had in practice far more than anyone had ever seen. His teammates are going, what the heck? Who does this in practice? And Michael would respond, you win games in practice.”
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“Raise a really great issue. And you see contrasting styles. As you said, there are many paths to winning. And Michael Jordan, as Tiger Woods, they were driven from the earliest days. I often think about the kind of resilience that Michael Jordan had when he got cut from his high school basketball team because he didn't have the right stuff. I'd love to know how the coach felt who cut him from the basketball team.”
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“Others. So I feel very grateful about that. And it has coincided with my research and with all the work that I've been able to do over so many years.”
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“But somehow his parents gave him integrity, and he carried that forward, went on and became an extraordinary baseball player, and he got hurt, and then he worked his way. He had no money whatsoever, very poor. He worked his way through school and went through engineering school. And when I think about someone, the two greatest gifts I've had in my life, were not because my parents were high achievers, but my mom was no achiever except an extraordinary mother. My father became a very high achiever, but he did it in the right way, and he taught all of us now that I am truly reflecting on those things, the value of integrity, honesty, and gratefulness and balance in one's life between striving and actually just giving back to others and striving for your own identity and giving back to others.”
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“College. She was, by any matter of me, she was not a high performer. But she was an extraordinarily good person. She was kind, giving, loving, trusting. I mean, she was a model of goodness, and she never achieved that much, but she was an extraordinarily happy woman. And then I have people who I know who are extraordinarily high achievers in a family. have virtually no connection to family members. The only thing they do is maybe provide financial support when people get in trouble, but there's no connection. And so for me, I'm looking, my mother and my father, my father was a person of unbelievable integrity. He came from a town of 400, very poor family. And he worked a trap line. To actually get food for his family. And it was a small little town called Defiance, Iowa. 400. I think there are about 287 people there now.”
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“Better member of your community, I think of someone like Arnold Palmer. I think of the legacy that Federer and Adal are leaving. This is not just a flash in the pan. There are a lot of people that get to a certain level of competency, but they have gotten there strictly on the basis of the skills they have that I call performance skills. They're very skilled at focus. They have great drive, motivation, they have discipline. They have great resiliency. They've learned to just fight like dogs. They have a lot of tough-mindedness. But when it comes to the how they've done what they've done, there is something missing and they know it, and that's that hidden scorecard. And so I try to help anyone I'm working with understand how to build both of those up. You know, my mother was not a great performer. She never graduated from”
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“And maybe the fans don't even like him because they consense. Maybe their arrogance, the way in which they're treating others and the way they treat the press, the way they treat coaches, they hire and fire coaches and whatever it is. They attack anyone who gets in the way. They've made a lot of money and they have achieved a lot of success. They may even someday get into the hall of fame, but probably not. Then there's this thing we call sustained success. And sustained success means that, and that, again, how do we define success? For me, success is the ability to perform at a very high level and to do so in a way the how that actually fulfills you, makes you feel like a complete human being, that you're proud of what you've done and how you've done it. And it's enabled you to be a better mother, a better father, better caring person.”
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“Them. And every time their kids do badly, it's like a mark on their performance. And they literally take personally everything that goes on with their kids. So I have this perspective. And then we have all this research to support this understanding that there's a difference between success and how you define success. If it's strictly in terms of titles, money, you know, all these extrinsic markers, if that's how we're going to define success, you can have a great career and have not that many moral and ethical virtues that define the journey. You know, what you do is very different than how you do it. And so we have people who've climbed to the top, and often they're really not that happy. And they maybe created a lot of dead bodies along the way.”
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“They don't like to fail, so they work hard enough so they don't fail, but they don't have to put in nearly as much work. But drive is a thing that separates them. So I'm lucky enough to have worked with generation after generation of great performers. And I'm now working with the kids of people who I worked with when they were in the prime of their career. I can see how their lives are playing out and what happened and what kind of human beings they are. And I didn't have that perspective when I was in the moment with them when they were very young. But when I see now what's happened to their lives, what kind of mothers and fathers they've become, how are they treating their kids when they're out in sports now? Do they understand what sport is all about and the gift that it is to them or are they these enraged parents driving?”
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“Who are driven Angela Duckworth calls it grit. It takes a lot of different forms. It can be persistence, determination. But it means somehow this sport has captured your interest, your passion, and come hell or high water, you're going to be good. And so what that drive does is that you just roll over setbacks, roll over injuries. You are not to be denied. And so we find people who have, even though they don't have a lot of skill and talent, but they have this blue collar kind of ethos, and they're driven like maniacs, and they become extraordinary performers just because they're driven to. And then you have others who are these, we call the natural ones, who don't have to work that hard, but they're willing to put up with it. And they just don't like family.”
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“To get away with things that in our sanest moments, if I had an opportunity to sit down with you and actually think it through, if we bust through all these smoke and mirrors, you realize this is not the person you want to be, even though, you know, there's this group thing, there's this, what called the boomerang effect. And even though we have this thing called motivated reasoning, all your reasoning now is I want to win.”
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“What you say, Tim, is 100% right. There is nothing to say that a person who has very few, in fact, they don't, you know, let's say you're in cycling and you found that if you take performance-enhancing drugs, you can dominate the field and you don't have any remorse or any hesitation doing so. And part of it is, you know, we have this incredible moral machinery which says, hey, everybody's doing it. You have 101 reasons why it's okay. And we all are fighting this battle. We want to feel as good as we possibly can. We want to feel like a good person. But we also want to take as many shortcuts as we can and win. And so we're always trying to get that line. How much can I do before I start? So we start invoking all these very complex and very powerful mechanisms, motivated reasoning. We do all kinds of things that actually enable us.”
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“He had this sense that I'm going to be okay. And this was a gift no matter what happens. If I get that, that's icing on the cake. But I like who I am and I like how I've dealt with these things. So that for me was a critical lesson that I've tried to bring into this leading with character book that really helps to unearth the scorecard that I think we all hold.”
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“A big part of the journaling was actually how do we build the muscles of moral and ethical character and make sure that I am living a life that is aligned with that and my energy reflects that more than winning. And that gives you a sense of peace and actually that enables you to go into competition and feel better about Dan Jansen realized. And this was a critical point. We had many conversations around this, that even if he didn't win an Olympic medal. And when he said, I'm going to skate out of this sense of joy and gratefulness, he was prepared to leave the sport of speed skating never to have won an Olympic medal because it was a gift and that could never be taken. He was revered by his competitors. He's an extraordinarily good person.”
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“Number one, maybe two or three or four times again. And what I began to realize that they were actually measuring themselves on a scorecard ultimately that was hidden. A hidden scorecard. And that was their treatment of others. And that they were not scoring high on, even though they climbed to the top. They didn't have this connection to family. They weren't loving and kind to maybe their siblings or even their competitors and how they dealt with all these other issues every single day you're confronted by some kind of stress associated with a connection with other persons and they weren't scoring well on that and so we began to realize that if we want to grow and have happiness high performance fulfillment we've got to work both scorecards it's not one to the exclusion of others and so that became”
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“Even though we're chasing all these extrinsic measures of success, we're going crazy and we think if I just win one more event, if I win one more gold star, if I win one more competitive victory, I'll feel really good about myself. But that is not the gold standard of how you're going to evaluate how your life was lived. This hidden scorecard I've found so many people who've been number one in the world. I've been fortunate enough to work with 17 number ones in the world and get them there. And I can vividly remember the conversations I've had when they were number one. They had this sense of, you know, I still feel like I don't feel comfortable in my skin. I need more. I don't know what it is. I'm not, this isn't what I thought it would be. I'm not that happy. I don't feel that fulfilled. I don't know how I can be now.”
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“Was, but it had a very different flavor than what you would typically think. And then we compared who you are at your best and how do you want to be remembered when you're gone. And they were right there. It was like something important was being represented. I really came to understand that there is this hidden scorecard in all of us.”
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“And again, the words that kept showing up loving Father, no one said, I was able to achieve, I made CEO of a Fortune 50 company or I became, I won an Olympic gold medal in my event three times. None of that was on any level was present. What they were actually referencing was their connection to other people that was somehow a standard that was so deeply ingrained in the cells of their body. That's the gold standard of what kind of human being they were. And this is how they want to be remembered, a person of integrity, a person who was honest and loving and caring and humble, and brought joy to other people's lives was an optimist or whatever it was.”
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“Best. So then we did another exercise, and I'd ask your listeners to do the same. And it is equally shocking. And it's along the same lines. And so I ask them to write down six or eight of the words that they would like inscribed on their tombstone if these words actually reflected who they truly were when they were here. These are true. What would you like inscribed most importantly in the highest priority on your tombstone? And this is you have passed now, but you would like to have these representing who you were when you were here. And so people five, six, seven minutes, they write them down. And I ask people to read their list. And everyone absolutely freaks out because the list is”
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“Because everyone came up with the same bloody things. Almost, you know, it was incredible, noticeably absent from the list were the things that people often feel like they're chasing. You know, I feel like I'm, you know, I'm at my best when I'm winning when I'm making a lot of money, when I'm winning titles, when I am finishing a great paper that just got accepted by a peer-reviewed group in some journal, on and on and on. No one ever mentioned those things. They would mention things like when I'm 100% there fully engaged with others, when I'm trustworthy, when I'm compassionate, when I'm kind. And there was no prompting, nothing. But they went almost immediately to this moral and ethical category for determining who they were at their best.”
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“Well, all I want at this point in this exercise is just the six words or the eight words that you believe are representative of you when you're most proud of yourself and often in a stressful circumstance when you are the best you can be. And that's it. That's as far as we go at this moment. Then I collect those. Or I ask people to read out loud what those words were. We go around the hall. Let's say there's 30 people in the group. And when we're finished, everyone is in the state of shock because they believe that everyone copied from their paper.”
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“The words that let's say we write six words down. Sometimes I say eight. I think I do in the book. I say eight because that's how our original exercise was. But you write down the six words that would best describe you at your absolute best when you're most proud. When you do that and you reflect on that for a moment, there'll be things that start to pop up So, I would give people five minutes, six minutes to do it.”
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“Absolutely. I'll give you a couple examples, Tim, that had a profound effect on me and something I was not prepared for what I got. We did this with thousands of people. So this is how this whole system evolved. So I asked people to just think about who they are when they're most proud of themselves, when they are at what they would consider to be their very best, and particularly in a stressful circumstance, who they are physically, who they are emotionally, who they are mentally, who they are spiritually. Sometimes you show up and you're so proud of how you showed up in that very challenging moment. And you're not even sure where it came from, but it happened. It was not a fantasy. Sometimes this actually happens. So I ask them to write down.”
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“Culture. So the 10 minutes a day in the most reflective moments of peace and quiet that you can find in your day so that you can begin to really get into the essence of what is important in your life? Who do you really want to be in the time you are here? Where do you want to invest your energy? How important is humility, is trustworthiness, is kindness, is compassion, of deeply caring and loving others and accepting others, respecting others, of being patient with others.”
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“The most reflected and intensive search for what you believe will represent the source code for all of your moral and ethical decisions, your energy investments going forward in life. And something magical happens. We piloted this for 10 years with some of the most extraordinary people, and we kept refining it and working it. And I will tell you, it's not for the faint of heart, but what it does is it helps you. We don't have a source code. Most of us have no idea where our moral and ethical machinery came from. But we're making moral and ethical decisions sometimes eight to ten times a day. And we don't have any idea what we're referencing. We don't even know where it came from. Most say that came from parents. Some say it came from their religious teachings. And some say it just seems to show up from life. We don't know exactly your peer groups.”
2020-12-28 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #490: Dr. Jim Loehr on Mental Toughness, Energy Management, the Power of Journaling, and Olympic Gold Medals · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Success as human beings on this planet, and that journal ends up after a hundred and fifty days, about twenty five hours, of hard work determining the priority you have values help you to prioritize what you think is important in your life and to make sure that you're operating and your energy is invested in ways that reflect that, your life reflects it. And when you're going to put together a document, I call a personal credo. And that credo is the most precise articulation.”
2020-12-28 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #490: Dr. Jim Loehr on Mental Toughness, Energy Management, the Power of Journaling, and Olympic Gold Medals · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Courage, moral courage is the ability to step up and do something according to what your beliefs are, even though you know there could be a really big cost to you if you do it. So these strengths of moral and ethical character for in our work and all the data that we collected began to show, and this was a complete surprise to me, showed the greatest impact over time on sustained great performance. And you can be incredible performer and have virtually very few moral and ethical strengths. You just get there in any way. This amazing capacity to care about others. It's really your treatment of others. And for me, and I didn't have this in the early part of my career, even a hint of it in terms of the understanding, was that your treatment of others is really the gold standard that we always use and will use to determine whether”
2020-12-28 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #490: Dr. Jim Loehr on Mental Toughness, Energy Management, the Power of Journaling, and Olympic Gold Medals · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In that bicep. And that is what I call stress. It's the investment of energy as stress and recovery is the capturing of that energy. So the journal is a way to expend energy in the service of something. And for me, the journal is in the service of building the most important character strengths, converting weaknesses into strengths. And there are different types of character. One is performance character, which enables you to become an extraordinary high achiever. And that's things like focus and determination and ambition and discipline and on and on. And then there is this category of moral and ethical character. And they're very distinct. And one can have one without the other. And we get them all confused. One, you have courage, which is just the courage, maybe the courage to take a shot in the last moment of a game. That's not moral.”
2020-12-28 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #490: Dr. Jim Loehr on Mental Toughness, Energy Management, the Power of Journaling, and Olympic Gold Medals · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Time to those highest priorities. And for me, that didn't work because I could watch athletes competing, playing, practicing. And it wasn't amount of time that they spent. It was the energy they brought to the time they had aligned with what the objective was. And I said, you know, the most precious resource we have is not time but energy. We are vessels of energy. And as long as we have energy, we can have an impact. And I began to realize that every time you invest energy in something, you spawn growth. If you give a lot of energy to sarcasm and cynicism and scapegoating what's going on, those will grow in your life. You can have the largest impatience muscle on the planet. All you have to do is by going into the gym, you have to invest a lot of energy in your bicep. You can have a world-class bicep, but you've got to invest energy.”
2020-12-28 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #490: Dr. Jim Loehr on Mental Toughness, Energy Management, the Power of Journaling, and Olympic Gold Medals · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In order to understand the journal and why I would even suggest this, and the journal is very challenging. It's 10 minutes a day, but it's going to take you, I just talked to somebody who's been in their sixth day. And he said, I've never, it was a very high-ranking person who's been through a lot. He says, I've never been pushed quite like this journalist pushing me. I start the whole thing with something that I began written about on the powerful engagement in other books, but this notion of managing your energy. And I just want to make a couple comments about that. I began to learn that our most important resource as human beings is not time. We were fed a bill of goods when the time management industry said that if you want to be successful, the most important thing you need to do is to carve out time, align it with your deepest values, and just devote”
2020-12-28 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #490: Dr. Jim Loehr on Mental Toughness, Energy Management, the Power of Journaling, and Olympic Gold Medals · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Strength like resiliency and focus, they have to be strong because they're going to be tested and you're not always passing the test.”
2020-12-28 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #490: Dr. Jim Loehr on Mental Toughness, Energy Management, the Power of Journaling, and Olympic Gold Medals · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To people. And if you could get inside their heads, if you start looking how they're acting with their physical bodies, you can pretty much guess how they're coaching themselves. And I do the same thing with CEOs that have catastrophic news or people in business that have during this pandemic have had to furlough some of their most important valued people in what they feel. And I always take them back to the leaders that most admire. How would they handle this? How do you show strength and a sense of perspective and belief in the future for everyone? And you got to show that as opposed to, because a lot of people are watching, it's perspective and it's hard work. And you're not going to have a muscle that holds up unless you work the heck out of it. And these muscles of character, muscles.”
2020-12-28 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #490: Dr. Jim Loehr on Mental Toughness, Energy Management, the Power of Journaling, and Olympic Gold Medals · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In a write about what happened and what they would prefer next time, they end up in that situation. And again, I keep taking people back to who they really want to be. How do they want to lead themselves? And what's the image they want to create for others? What for them is the ultimate competitor? So often in tennis, you'll have fetter. You'll have Nadal. And you'll say, have you ever seen Nadal do that? Have you ever seen Fed act like that? And they're going to know. And I said, if that's your model, how do you think they're speaking to themselves when something really, has that ever happened to them where they've really performed miserably and actually walked off a court having really left what they consider to be, you know, their best performances somewhere else? It just didn't happen. And they always say, yes, anybody that knows the game. And the same with Nadal. But they've become remarkable inspiration.”
2020-12-28 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #490: Dr. Jim Loehr on Mental Toughness, Energy Management, the Power of Journaling, and Olympic Gold Medals · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a situation that when it came, their whatever capacity they had was exceeded and they kind of went over the edge. And now they have to pull themselves back. First of all, they typically feel if it's in the middle of a match, they typically feel maybe a little relief. But on the other hand, they feel like they've kind of made a fool of themselves unless there's somebody like Curios who kind of does it kind of all the time. That's kind of his standard operating procedure. It really calls on their resiliency to leave that behind. And then they need to go that night and”
2020-12-28 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #490: Dr. Jim Loehr on Mental Toughness, Energy Management, the Power of Journaling, and Olympic Gold Medals · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT