This week we talk to Sam Weinman about losing
- His book, Win at Losing: How Our Biggest Setbacks Can Lead to Our Greatest Gains
- The truth that we learn more from losing than we do from winning
- That you're far better served listening to those who have lost constructively than those who've simply won
- How you can learn to lose and fail better
- That sports are a window into everything else in life
- The difference between losing and failure
- The '87 Masters lesson
- How to find the balance between being hard on yourself and beating the sh*t out of yourself
- The power of talking to yourself like you would a really good friend
- Shifting the emphasis away from the results and more towards an ongoing process
- That if you're always the victim, there's nothing you can do about your circumstances
- The relationship between a growth and a fixed mindset and focusing on the goal vs the results
- Counterfactual thinking: Focusing on what could have been vs what is
- The fact that losing teaches you more about who you are than winning teaches you
- How your past doesn't define you, it prepares you
- What "not this but that" means
- Post Traumatic Growth
- Ways to foster resilience in yourself
- Cognitive Restructuring
- How important context and mindset is
Direct download:
Sam_Weinman_FINAL.mp3
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-- posted at: 10:42pm EDT