A Review of Do Hard Things
For those that don't know, Steve Magness is a well known author, researcher, and performance coach. His newsletter, The Growth Equation , is worth subscribing to. In addition to coaching world class endurance athletes, Magness himself was an accomplished miler and although he may have been a bit quicker than me, I still feel some sense of connectedness to what he has to say about performance. I happened to listen to him recently on the Rich Roll podcast and in addition to talking about the Nike Oregon Project scandal of which he played a key role first as an assistant coach and then whistleblower, Magness also spoke at length about his latest book, Do Hard Things . What follows is a reminder to myself, an encouragement, hopefully, to my kids to seek out the true source of confidence, and to people I work with to always be in touch with what they truly do control. Magness tees up his thesis by going into a good amount of detail in debunking the traditional definitions of toughnes