A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "In Do Hard Things Steve Magness beautifully and persuasively
reimagines our understanding of toughness. This is a must-read for parents and coaches and
anyone else looking to prepare for life's biggest challenges."—Malcolm Gladwell author of
Outliers and Talking to Strangers and host of the Revisionist History podcast From beloved
performance expert executive coach and coauthor of Peak Performance Steve Magness comes a
radical rethinking of how we perceive toughness and what it means to achieve our high ambitions
in the face of hard things. Toughness has long been held as the key to overcoming a challenge
and achieving greatness whether it is on the sports field at a boardroom or at the dining
room table. Yet the prevailing model has promoted a mentality based on fear false bravado
and hiding any sign of weakness. In other words the old model of toughness has failed us.
Steve Magness a performance scientist who coaches Olympic athletes rebuilds our broken model
of resilience with one grounded in the latest science and psychology. In Do Hard Things
Magness teaches us how we can work with our body – how experiencing discomfort leaning in
paying attention and creating space to take thoughtful action can be the true indications of
cultivating inner strength. He offers four core pillars to cultivate such resilience: Pillar 1:
Ditch the Façade Embrace Reality Pillar 2: Listen to Your Body Pillar 3: Respond Instead of
React Pillar 4: Transcend Discomfort Smart and wise all at once Magness flips the script on
what it means to be resilient. Drawing from mindfulness military case studies sports
psychology neuroscience psychology and philosophy he provides a roadmap for navigating
life’s challenges and achieving high performance that makes us happier more successful and
ultimately better people.
