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How to Learn Like a Jungle Tiger with Trevor Ragan from TrainUgly.com

Episode 118 Published 6 years, 11 months ago
Description
Meet Trevor Ragan, the guest on this week's Way of Champions Podcast. Trevor is the founder of Train Ugly, and the host of a fantastic podcast called The Learner Lab [link]. This one goes a little over an hour, but we promise it is worth the time! Grab a notebook and a pen, and maybe some coffee or tea. This one is packed with incredible information!
 
Highlights from the Podcast:
  • The most important trait of a great leader: the ability to learn
  • How Trevor came up with the name "Train Ugly"
  • Helping learners appreciate the pain of messing up to get better
  • The difference between a tiger growing up in the zoo or growing up in the jungle
  • Trevor shares his story of trying out for Duke Basketball
  • Spending two years experiencing the leadership of Mike Krzyzewski
  • Why Trevor started his podcast
  • Overcoming Fear, Stress and Anxiety
  • Things that create fear: Uncertainty, Attention, Change and Struggle
  • Practice: Doing vs Reading
  • Trevor explains how baseball coaches can improve pregame warm ups
  • What is psychological safety and why is it more important than most people know?
  • Why sleep is the best performance enhancing drug available
Connect with Trevor Ragan 
Resources Mentioned 
The Learner Lab [podcast]
The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck [book]
Innovation, and Growth by Amy C. Edmondson  [book]
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Dan Coyle [book]
How to 'overcome' fear, a TedTalk with Trevor Ragan [video]
Learning Like a Jungle Tiger, a TedTalk with Trevor Ragan [video]
 
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