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- 1. Mental Toughness Daily practices to reach peak performance and toughen you up By Sean Konieczny, February 18th, 2017
- 2. Who am I? • American: MA, HI, SF • Entrepreneur, Product • Expert in digital health • Passionate about microbiome • One suitcase and AirBnBs • One on one conversations over juice
- 3. Who are you? • What’s your name? • Where are you from? • What do you do in Beijing? • What made you interested in joining the session today?
- 4. Today’s Agenda • Inspiration: Learning 4 daily practices (30min) • Participation: Activity to apply practices to your life (20 min) • Communication: Open-discussion (until brunch)
- 5. Sacrifice Comfort for Learning • We all experience hard things: prevention trumps treatment • Choose betterment or suffer with a quiet life of desperation • Aim beyond your limits. Become a high-performer Mental Toughness a measure of individual resilience and confidence that applies to different aspects of life – game face
- 6. “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with”
- 7. “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with” - Jim Rohn
- 8. 1.) Be the dumbest person in the room Why? • Kick the ego’s ass before the fight • Pheromones: “They’re really rubbing off on you…” How? • Hire people who can take your job • Make new friends, and throw away the old ones • Hunt the people who have done it (cold call, email hunter, pay to play)
- 9. “Plan for what is difficult while it is easy”
- 10. “Plan for what is difficult while it is easy” - Sun Tzu
- 11. 2.) Take cold showers Why? • Recalibrate your tolerance for discomfort, pain, and hardship – Calm chaos • Brown fat and other health benefits How? • Start slow, focus on progression (timed exposure) • Graduate to ice-baths and breathing techniques • Other tactics: bouncing, jumping rope, pushups, forest bathing
- 12. “I can accept failure… but I can’t accept not trying”
- 13. “I can accept failure… but I can’t accept not trying” - Michael Jordan
- 14. 3.) Practice failure and use “no” therapy Why? • Increase your tolerance for fear, risk, and uncertainty – learn exponentially • Probability: practice taking more shots How? • Set “hardly out of reach” goals • Practice with simple transactions (Can I get a discount?) • Learn from other people’s failures through stories
- 15. “If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do”
- 16. “If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do” - Hermann Hesse
- 17. 4.) See what sacrifice feels like... stop eating Why? • Generate focus and mental acuity (and sex appeal) • Spiritual discipline and empathetic sacrifice How? • Begin with caloric restriction by skipping meals • Define an intermittent fasting (IF) window • DDU til you hit 36 hours, eventually 3 day (water only)
- 18. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
- 19. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” - Marcus Aurelius
- 20. “It’s your fucking choice.”
- 21. “It’s your fucking choice.” - Sean Konieczny
- 22. Activity & Accountability Affirmations Fasting Cold Showers Floor Sleeper Early-Riser MTQ48 Ahead of Schedule Mindfulness 30 Days Get to “NO” Better Getter
- 23. 1.) Find a partner. 2.) Tell them whatchyagundo. 3.) Hold them accountable. Activity & Accountability
- 24. Thank you
- 25. Resources • “Meditations” – Marcus Aurelius • Benefits of cold showers – Dr. Aaron Cypess • Benefits of Intermittent Fasting – Dr. Dominic D’Agostino • “You’re the average of the five people…” – Business Insider • Benefits of Mindfulness -- Headspace • The Science of Developing Mental Toughness – James Clear • Mental Toughness Questionnaire 48 -- AQR • Hunt down people better than you – Email Hunter
Editor's Notes
- Challenges overcome by using mental toughness
- Don’t anticipate, participate By the end of this presentation.. 4 simple techniques Permission: Are you guys ok if we get started?
- Obstacles sudden pop up – who has eveperienced an obstacle? Mention dad cancer Choice – Who here would choose to have stronger mental toughness? Full capacity, aim high, go far GAME intro
- Ego overpowers, hurts you in the long run -exercise of low self-esteem - break down muscles Pheromones: a chemical substance produced and released into the environment by an animal, affecting the behavior or physiology of others of its species. - Talk similar - Same amorism's - Same nose Look like pet Make new friends – Hawaii garage story Dreadlock stoner dude, watched movies all day Chubby Frat dude who was constantly drunk, partying and loud Made enough money to omve out Hunt – Silver medalist, Justin Gatlin
- All through ice: die of panic Prevent the panic Dr. Cypess Harvard Medical School: researchers found that cold bathing created a metabolic boost that allowed people to lose 9lbs over the course of 1 year without any other lifestyle changes
- Being ok with failure makes uncertainty irrelevant Probabilty – take more shots Investors 93rd meeting Moka bros (convince them I’m a marketer) Who you want to buy Buy their book Highlight their problems
- Last one: Because this is going to make us hungry Christianity has lent, also a practice andimprove mental toughness Eat a big lunch, don’t eat dinner [IF] Window 9-12p 15 hours of fasting
- Choice You just got 4 huge hacks for increasingmental toughness Activity