7 Mentally Tough People on the Tactics They Use to Build Resilience

Here's what you can learn from David Goggins, Courtney Dauwalter, Kobe Bryant, and more on how to perform under pressure.

Lauren Johnson is a mental performance coach who most recently worked with the New York Yankees, where she helped develop strategies for athletes and sports professionals to help them cultivate mental resilience. In this conversation, Johnson and I deconstruct the strategies and tactics of seven mentally tough people and how they learned to perform under pressure. Below is a summary of our conversation, but you can listen on Apple Podcasts or watch it below. David Goggins grew up living in fear. At school, he experienced incessant bullying and racism. At home, he suffered physical and…

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