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 mental 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 a new definition of inner strength 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 such resilience. 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 this life-changing self-help book 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 overcoming
performance anxiety and achieving the kind of high performance that makes us happier more
successful and ultimately better people.
