180 - The Science Behind Doing Hard Things With Human Performance Expert Steve Magness

Steve Magness is a world-renowned expert on human performance. He’s worked as a consultant on mental skills development for professional sports teams, including some of the top NBA teams.  He co-authored the books Peak Performance and The Passion Paradox with our former guest Brad Stulberg. He also wrote The Science of Running and now he has a new book called Do Hard Things.  Some of the things he shares today are why our brains work so hard to keep us inside our comfort zones, how to change your inner dialogue, and what happens when we push ourselves to do hard things.