What Actually Shapes Behavior? | Dr. Krista Scott-Dixon

Krista Scott-Dixon (0:00)

I think we often have this idea that change comes from this one singular event, right? People talk about like, oh, I hit rock bottom, and then I knew, I woke up the next day and I vowed I was never going to drink again or whatever, or I had this epiphany, this vision. Sure, sometimes that happens.

But a lot of the time, change comes from like the thousand paper cuts of life.

And there's one day when one thousand and one happens and you're like, God damn it, I am so done with this. Or not just injury, but like little gestures. We make micro gestures towards change that maybe operate even below the level of our conscious awareness. But over time, these micro gestures accumulate. So if you record each one of them, you could look back and reconstruct a narrative.

Michael Gervais (0:58)

All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Gervais. And by trade in training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist, as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. And if you haven't picked up the audible original that we just dropped, I want to encourage you to do that. And if you have, I want to say thank you. And you can find the audible original. It's only available at audible at audible.com forward slash compete to create. Now, the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery.

We want to better understand what it is that they're searching for, not so that we understand them better so much, but so that we can better identify what we're searching for in life. And we want to dig to understand the psychological framework that they use, how they see themselves, how they make sense of the events around them. And we also want to understand the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft.

I want to take a minute here to announce a really exciting event that we have coming up. As you continue to navigate the challenges and opportunities of 2024, I want to pose a question. What are you doing right now to be great with stress? How are you working with stress on your pursuit towards your most important ambitions and goals? And I just want to get right to the heart of the key elements, one in particular, for what it takes to excel in today's high heat, high stakes world. Because stress is not the problem that we think it is. Stress is a synonym for change, and our ability to be agile with change, that is the real opportunity at hand. So if you're wanting to unlock extraordinary results and sustainable performance in your life, it's not about avoiding or reducing stress. And as simple as that sounds, it's very tricky to do, but it is about fundamentally changing your relationship with it.

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