Mental Toughness For Mavericks

Former US Army Captain and founder of Mind Fitness Training Institute, Dr. Stanley shares how to train for greater mindfulness. Highlights: How mental toughness also means being agile and flexible The incredible results a group of Marines experienced from mindfulness practice before deployment to Iraq Why mindfulness helps increase working memory and regulate emotions

Rock star pianist and arts entrepreneur Jade Simmons talks about her evolution as a maverick. Highlights: What it really means to hustle Why experiencing a failure doesn't mean you’re a failure How to handle the pressure of competition and on-stage performance

Author of Do You QuantumThink®, Dianne Collins presents a new twist to “thought creates reality,” taking it from New Age “woo woo” to intelligent modern necessity. Highlights: How to integrate intuition into decision-making The limits of linear thinking and how to leverage quantum principles What you need to know about the true nature of time to relieve pressure and develop a possibility mindset

Performance psychologist and Juilliard-trained violinist, Dr. Kageyama  talks about how to deal with nerves and perform at your best when the stakes are high. Highlights: How mental toughness is like pizza How to move from an outcome focus and assume success The tiny shift you can make when you feel like giving up How to prepare for a performance and what to do when you trip up

Retired Navy SEAL turned Inc 500 entrepreneur, Brent Gleeson translates the leadership and decision-making skills he learned in the SEAL teams to building a business. Highlights: Why great leaders never stop learning How to keep moving when your plan hits a snag How to win the battle with ego and maintain emotional control regardless of circumstances

Author of the book by the same name, Paul Sullivan shares diverse examples from sports, business and military of what it means to be “clutch” and the art of operating in high- stress situations as if they were everyday conditions. Highlights: The five key traits of clutch performers What it means to “fight the fight, not the plan” The role of overconfidence in not being clutch

Psychologist, peak performance coach and Harvard Medical School faculty Pamela Enders explains how to manage pressure so you perform at your best. Highlights: The three components of pressure and why it’s personal The one question that will help you cut through the fog of panic Why a task doesn’t have to be hard or easy How to visualize success in a situation where you have no experience

One of America’s leading mountaineers – with over 175 international expeditions, including K2 and Mt. Everest -- Chris shares insights on how to create and lead high performance teams. Highlights: Why you need to build a team based on partnership, not accomplishment (it’s not just about getting to the top) The key differences of high-performance teams different and the disproportionate impact of building trust Why behaviors, not tools, are the “killer app” The secret to getting used to failure

Entrepreneur coach Pamela Slim shares deep wisdom on how to handle self-doubt and stay motivated. Highlights: The two-part equation for developing “grit” “Full-contact living” and the danger of instant success How to use humor as a pressure valve A strong work ethic isn’t enough for success

Scientist and professor of psychology at George Mason University, Dr. Kashdan says curiosity is a skill that we can cultivate and explains why it’s so powerful. Highlights: How to become comfortable with risk in an unstable, unpredictable world How great leaders use curiosity to their advantage How curiosity can transform difficult relationships and reinforce good ones

Social psychologist and associate director of the Motivation Science Center at Columbia Business School, Heidi Halvorson speaks about what successful people do differently. Highlights: How to embrace risk when it doesn't come naturally What mentally tough people do (and don't) focus on in achieving their goals The one word leaders can use with their team (and themselves) to encourage grit What is realistic optimism and how to use it

Former Institutional Investor-ranked sell-side analyst on Wall Street and author of "Disrupt Yourself” (ranked a top management thought-leader in 2015 by Thinkers50), translates the concepts of disruptive innovation in business to personal disruption in your career and life. Highlights: how conventionally successfully people have taken the personal path of self-disruption how to manage the S-curve waves of learning and mastery the power of constraints

A leading adviser on accelerated business growth who has started more than 40 companies, Les McKeown explains that different kinds of mental toughness are needed for a successful transition through the three growth stages of a business. Highlights:• The one habit that every great leader keeps inviolate (and why)• The three destructive tendencies of wanna-be leaders• How "strategy yankers" kill motivation and why consistent discipline rules

A psychology professor at The University of Chicago and one of the world’s leading experts on the brain science behind “choking under pressure,” Dr. Beilock explains how to perform better in every arena, from taking exams and giving presentations to playing golf. Working memory and how it’s affected by emotions under stress When less is more and why being too smart gets in the way How stereotypes affect performance, for better or worse How you think about yourself trumps ability when you’re under stress Specific techniques to prevent choking under pressure

Paralympian gold medalist skier Josh Dueck shares the story of how he faced adversity after being paralyzed from the waist down and went on to become the first person to do a back flip on snow in a sit-ski.

New York Times best-selling author of The Talent Code and Lance Armstrong’s War, Daniel Coyle delves into deliberate practice and how to cultivate greatness. Highlights: Think of talent not as an innate gift but as a construction project How passionate curiosity fuels irrational obsession The secret to high-velocity learning A counterintuitive approach to breaking through plateaus The paradox of mental toughness: why the pudgy guy becomes a SEAL and the tri-athlete quits

Coauthors of “The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It Well,” Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield share exactly that. Highlights: The difference in mindset that sets super-achievers like Martina Navratilova, Yogi Berra and Guy Kawasaki apart from everyone else What super-achievers say about persistence and how to know if you’re on the right track The power of active listening in changing beliefs and biases How super-achievers leverage the power of emotion to work for, not against, them

Retired Navy SEAL Mark Divine explains the mindset necessary to consistently rise to the occasion in high-pressure situations. Highlights: A key indicator that you’re not mentally tough How to integrate training and habituation into any aspect of life The OODA loop mental model and how it helps make decisions under pressure How to “win in your mind” first before taking action

Leadership expert Simon Sinek explains how a powerful “why” highlights the path through adversity. Highlights:• The difference between mental toughness and hard work• How to use your “why” as a compass and how to let go of being perfect• Use mental toughness to trust your intuition• Why discipline alone is not mental toughness and how do you find your “why” anyway