Do Hard Things: Building Toughness & Developing Resilience -Steve Magness-

Steve Magness discusses a modern approach to building resilience and mental toughness in athletes, challenging traditional coaching models.

October 6, 2022 Toughness has long been held as a fundamental key to achieving peak performance. For generations, we've been taught toughness means bulldozing through—pushing to the point of breakdown—and that showing any sign of weakness is failure. This model of toughness has long been glorified and celebrated. But the truth is, it doesn't work. Steve Magness flips the script on what it means to be tough, pointing to new research that shows how our understanding of resilience—one that ignores discomfort—is wrong.