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Alan Stein Jr. On Mastering Stress, Staying Present Under Pressure & Learning To Love The Process
About this episode
Today’s guest is world-renowned coach, speaker and author Alan Stein Jr. Alan spent 15+ years working with the highest performing basketball players on the planet including Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant and Stephan Curry. He now teaches audiences how to utilize the same strategies in business that elite athletes use to perform at a world-class level. Alan inspires and empowers everyone he works with to take immediate action and improve mindset, habits and productivity. Alan shares how to build and maintain self-confidence, how to detach from outcomes and embrace the process, why it’s so important to stay focused on your effort and attitude, how to stay present while experiencing stress and use it to your advantage, how to develop discipline and create long lasting changes in your life and more.
What to Listen For:
00:00 Intro
01:27 How to build sustainable confidence
04:17 Does failure build confidence?
07:14 You can’t change the past
10:30 How to stay PRESENT
14:19 Control your effort and attitude
18:28 Stack small wins
22:30 Learn to love the process
26:47 Stress, stagnation and burnout
30:45 Using stress to your advantage
35:15 Wants vs. needs
38:00 How to escape the victim mindset
40:50 Overcoming the fear of rejection
44:58 Visualization and manifestation
48:10 How to make a comeback
Episode Resources:
Alan | Instagram, Website
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