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How "Narrative Values" Can Change Your Psychology & Biology
The stories we tell ourselves shape our reality, heavily influencing our decision-making, behavior, and ability to bounce back from challenges. Which…
1 year, 1 month ago
From Success to Mastery: The Art of Sustained Excellence
We spend a lot of time on this podcast talking about how to achieve success in your own personal pursuit of excellence, but we don't spend all that m…
1 year, 1 month ago
Build Better Work Habits, Manage Anxiety, & Quit Leaking Energy
Since we launched "excellence, actually," we've gotten a bunch of questions from listeners and members of The Growth Equation Academy. So today we're…
1 year, 2 months ago
Restless Exhaustion: What to Do When You Just Can't Turn Off
It's the end of the day and you're finally ready to shut down, unplug from work, relax, or go to sleep—except your mind won't stop racing. You're wip…
1 year, 2 months ago
Tools for Navigating Discomfort and Difficulty
At some point, we will all face discomfort, be it psychological or physical, at work or in a workout. But we do often get to choose how to handle tha…
1 year, 2 months ago
How to Avoid the Achievement Trap and Find Lasting Fulfillment
Just about everyone has been caught thinking that some big achievement would fulfill them—only to get there and realize it didn't. This is the Achiev…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Art of Doing Hard Things: Meaningful Challenge vs. Useless Suffering
We believe it's important to do hard things. In fact, as your may know, Steve wrote a book with that very title. But there's a difference between tak…
1 year, 3 months ago
Balance is a Myth: How to Build Healthy Obsession
Today, we're taking exception with a couple ideas you often see passed around in the health and wellness space: that balance is achievable (or even d…
1 year, 3 months ago
How to Build a Meaningful Identity in a Status-Driven World
Here's a phrase we often come across: “Comparison is the thief of joy.” This is absolutely true! Unfortunately, we’re biologically wired to seek stat…
1 year, 3 months ago
How to Be Excellent, Actually
On the inaugural episode of our rebranded podcast "excellence, actually," Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg, and Clay Skipper discuss the rebrand of the s…
1 year, 3 months ago