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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Exactly! - Resilience, Grit and Mental Toughness get thrown around by commentators and coaches as if they're the same thing but they're quite different. I think we have a video posting around Oct 21st on the Coaching Channel that provides an overview of how they differ. Here's the short version based on some of original literature on the subjects:

• Resilience - your past
• Mental Toughness - your present
• Grit - your future

Curious about the "actual" impact of Goggins' insights. People absolutely love him and he deserves a high level of respect for all he's accomplished. But is his contribution in the area of mental toughness primarily "Rocky-like" motivation (we're fired up by seeing him in action) or are there insights that are truly applicable for the average person?

I'll hang up and listen :-)

Tim - you NAILED it with that podcast title: Coffee, Beer, Coaching and Dogs? BOOM!

Thanks. Tends to be a good shorthand for a lot of coaches' lives with obvious variations from coach to coach. I hear some like cats. Hope you are well.

Tim

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Good morning - Crowie had me present an expanded version of my mental toughness PhD work last month and it was reminder I need to get this out there (and not just sitting in dissertation on bookshelf). Here's expanded version of how the fMT bank works and how to put the first of the 3 pieces (Thrive) into play with athletic or other pursuits: Hope it's helpful. Happy to answer questions that come up. I'll try to check back occasionally.

Just from a personality standpoint I'm not a Goggins fan. All the cursing and ranting is a big turn off for me. Now Crowie is a guy I really like. He's cool as a cucumber.

Part II of the series of brief videos going into what the evidence says about how to improve mental toughness just went live. This one goes into the practical aspects of the 2nd part of the fMT trilogy: Prepare. Obviously applicable to us as endurance athletes, but also applies to students, business leaders, parents and others. Here's the link if it's an interest:

(Part I is in the description or you can see it in the string up above). Hope it's helpful to many!

Really interesting thread. In college I always looked at mental toughness as a "bank" that I could store terrible experiences in, and pull from when the time came. 16 miles in the dead of winter when it's single digits and windy as heck. Mile repeats on a hot track. 100 mile weeks in late summer. I remember thinking about all of that during my fastest races, but the one thing they all had in common was zero pain. Clocked a 4:06 mile and 14:24 5K, and specifically remember on those last laps I was thinking about the last few intervals of my best workouts where I felt great, and how I was going to finish like a beast. Those days are decades in the past but I still think about them when I'm training. It certainly makes it easier to head out in the cold, rain, and brutal heat. I 100% believe that "suffer bank" makes suffering in the present more tolerable.

I don't know if this has been addressed but the ability to endure has been fascinating to me for years.

However, I would love to see if there has been any research into people developing an "alter-ego" to go through trying times. Goggins is very much evidence of this. I vaguely remember there being a professional female triathlete who has done this, too... I just don't remember who it was.

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Great question. We're finalizing the 3rd (of 3) videos for next week that touches on this concept. I'll try to remember to come back an post a link but it should be available next Wednesday.

Such a great book. I may go read it a second time.

We just put together a trilogy of short videos on the practical strategies to improve mental toughness from my PhD work on the subject over the past several years and the last one just went live today. Here are links if interested. You're welcome to share with other athletes/coaches if beneficial as they're designed to be a freely available resource for all:

• Part I -
• Part II -
• Part III -
• Playlist of the fMT Trilogy back2back2back - https://youtube.com/...WIkZ3nVsmcsBfEGAtnof

Happy to do my best to answer any questions, either here or via the comments section of video. I hope this little series is helpful to many regarding an area that is often left out of the training mix.