The Dedication to Live with Integrity and Courage | Author, Glennon Doyle

Glennon Doyle (0:00)

The best way I know to keep becoming is to do the thing I'm afraid to do, to say the thing that I'm afraid to say, to face the thing that I'm afraid to face. The deal is you go straight towards the battle every single day, right? Whatever the battle is, our tendency is to turn our horse and run the other way, and it will just never work.

So whatever the battle is of the day, of your life, of your relationship, of your parenting, of your do it first, it never is pretty. I am never doing things in a way where it's like, wow, she just really is graceful. She just nailed that one all the way through. I usually just figure it out as I'm going, I'm always going towards it.

Michael Gervais (0:58)

Okay, welcome back or welcome to, if you're new to these conversations, welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Gervais and by trade and training, I am a sport and performance psychologist. The whole idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who are extraordinary.

We want to understand their psychological framework that they use to pursue a deep understanding of the human experience in a way that is advancing our capabilities. And really these conversations are about reimagining what it means to be human, especially in modern times.

And as we dig under the surface, we explore how do they use their mind? What are the frameworks that they're using? What are the mental skills like becoming more confident and calm and focused and using maybe imagery or meditation or, you know, whatever the strategies are to build and refine their craft?

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