excellence, actually
Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg, & Clay Skipper
"excellence, actually" is a podcast from The Growth Equation, hosted by Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg, and Clay Skipper. Drawing on their years of working and corresponding with Olympians, coaches, executives, world-class physicians, and other elite-level achievers in their coaching practice and professional careers, they give you the mental and physical tools, practices, habits, and frameworks used by the best in the world in the pursuit of excellence. Each episode will give you concrete ideas a...
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Episodes (369)
190 - Why Exercise Should be a Part of your Job (even if you’re not an athlete)
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189 - Reflections on Launch Week
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188 - Competition and The “Win at All Costs” Mentality
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187 - Master Of Change
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186 - Four Types of Recovery
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185 - The Mental Health of Endurance Athletes
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184 - Hitting “The Plateau”
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183 - How and Why We Choke
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182 - A Master Interviewer on How to Ask Great Questions
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181 - How We Use Technology
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180 - Taking It Easy
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179 - 7 Mindset Shifts that will Change your Life
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178 - Cheap Dopamine
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177 - The Internet has gone a little Crazy
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176 - Relational Flexibility (with Yael Schonbrun)
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Special Episode: Big Pharma vs. Big Conspiracy
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175 - Nurturing Our Relationships (with Yael Schonbrun)
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174 - The Impact of Youth Sports
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173 - "You Can’t Screw This Up” (with Adam Bornstein)
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172 – Diet Extremism and the Trigger Happy Contrarian
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171 – Steve Magness Gives a Masterclass on Exercise
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170 – Interpreting Failure
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169 – Kate Courtney
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168 – Men and Masculinity (Part 2)
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167 – Men and Masculinity (Part 1)
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166 – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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165 – A Message for Coaches
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164 – The Impact of Artificial Intelligence
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163 – Examine Your Supplements (with Gregory Lopez)
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161 – Cold Plunges, Coffee, and Alchohol
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160 – The Attention Economy
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159 – Startling Rates of Mental Illness in Teenagers
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158 – Who’s the Greatest Basketball Player of all Time?
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157 – Navigating Intimate Relationships (with Yael Schonbrun)
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156 – Sahil Bloom
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155 – How NOT to fail your New Year’s Resolution
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154 – The Athlete’s Psychology (with Stu McMillan)
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153 – Coaching Olympic Athletes (with Stu McMillan)
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152 – The Digital Sabbatical
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151 – Quick Thoughts Before the Holiday Break; We’ll be Back Jan 04
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150 – The Twitter Premortem
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149 – Sustainable Progress
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148 – Top 15 Books of 2022
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147 – Analyzing Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX
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146 – Internet Brain
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145 – How to Work, Parent, Thrive (with Yael Schonbrun)
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144 – Life is Hard, How Philosophy can Help (with Kieran Setiya)
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143 – Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation
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142 – Finding Your Endurance (with Chris Douglas)
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141 – Balancing Progression with Consistency
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