When something bad happens, do two things: recognize how it could be worse and feel grateful, then find the opportunity hidden in the problem. Brian Johnson breaks down Darren Donnelly's method for turning setbacks into growth.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another heroic one. In our last couple ones, we've been exploring wisdom from another one of Darren Donnelly's great sports fables, the Mental Game. As you may recall, we talked about the importance of talking to yourself rather than listening to yourself. Then we discussed the importance of turning up the heat and creating a heroic self image. Today I want to chat about another great idea from that great fable.
Let's get right to work.
Darren's guide tells the aspiring hero, and.
I quote, when something bad happens, ask.
Yourself, what's something good that could come from this? What's the opportunity in front of me? He continues by saying, stuck in the rough. Every player lands in the rough.
It's how you get out of it that counts, how you play. The next shot is your opportunity to.
Separate yourself from the competition. Miss a cut, You've now got the opportunity to spend a couple extra days.
Recouping and preparing for the next tournament. That's an opportunity others don't have. Suffer a panic attack.
That's your body's way of letting you know something needs to be fixed.
And you now have the opportunity to find that help you need and end up better off than if you had continued down the path you were on then.
Finally, he says it's a quick two step process when you encounter a fresh problem.
One, recognize how things could be worse and be grateful you are where you are and two, find the opportunity you now have and focus on that.
I'll save the spoiler alert, but that's wisdom from one of the final chapters.
Right before our hero might do some pretty heroic stuff.
As I read that, I thought of Jocko Willink's see, Discipline equals freedom.
Responds to every bad thing that can happen.
He says. Good. I also thought of how Josh Waitzkin.
See the art of learning responds anytime he gets injured as an opportunity to get better. And I thought of the time I.
Took a fall while training for a Spartan race. I wound up needing 20 plus screws to put my left wrist back together. But immediately after I saw my arm was completely shattered.
I looked up at the rope climb.
I had just successfully completed and thank the heroic gods I didn't fall off.
Of that as I might have broken my neck and not been alive to consider the alternatives.
Today's plus one Spotlight on you.
Are you going through a challenging time?
Of course you are.
You're a heroic human being striving to do your best in service to something bigger than yourself. Perfect. Embrace the two step process.
Recognize how things could be worse and.
Be grateful for where you are.
Then get clear on how this challenge is giving you an opportunity to get stronger. Here's to optimizing our self image, talking.
To ourselves wisely, and controlling our effort.
And our attitude as we win the.
Mental game and give the world all we've got today.
