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#897 - Steve Magness - How Nervous People Can Perform Under Pressure

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Steve Magness is a performance coach, author, and sports scientist. Performing under pressure isn’t easy. Whether it’s a big test, a game, or a presentation, nerves often get in the way. So how do you stay calm and do your best? How can you turn pressure into an advantage? Expect to learn how pressure impacts performance, how to deal better with stress and anxiety, how to stop focusing on negative outcomes, why identity and self-clarity are so important, the biggest differences between surviving and thriving, the role failure plays in shaping your true identity and how to fail better, why it’s so difficult for people to find out who they are and much more… Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get a 20% discount on Nomatic’s amazing luggage at https://nomatic.com/modernwisdom Get a 20% discount on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D, and more from AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/modernwisdom Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

How many elite performers do you think have got the talent to be able to become world class,

0:05.5

but don't actually have the inside game to actualize that potential?

0:10.1

I think it's a much larger percent than we realize.

0:14.8

And I've seen it.

0:16.5

I've seen it at the junior, the high school, the college level,

0:30.9

athletes who were insanely talented, better than those who became Olympic medalist, but they just kept getting in their own way. They weren't able to express that talent.

0:34.6

And I would bet you that any coach or somebody who spent enough time in this field has

0:40.1

dozens of stories, just like I do. Yeah, there's a, do you know who Louis Capaldi is, British singer?

0:47.1

No. Okay. So he, I mean, he'll have heard his tracks. He's done billions and billions of streams.

0:51.9

And he's having a tough time mentally at the moment.

0:56.2

He found a lot of pressure in between his first and his second album,

1:02.1

as it's known, the difficult second album.

1:04.8

And had this pressure to perform,

1:08.2

wasn't really too sure whether he could live up to his own expectations and what was needed by the label and what was wanted by his management, so on and so forth.

1:15.2

And he had Tourette's, and he developed kind of a Tourette's tick, which was his shoulder,

1:21.5

which is very common, and a lot of anxiety came along with it. And a couple of times now,

1:27.4

on very big stages, I think he did this at

1:29.5

Glastonbury last summer. He's certainly done it in a couple of his own live shows. He's choked on

1:35.4

stage doing his own songs. And the anxiety's gotten so bad that he hasn't been able to get

1:43.2

the words out to the songs that he's written, doing the very thing that he wanted. And I feel so bad that he hasn't been able to get the words out, to the songs that he's written,

1:45.6

doing the very thing that he wanted. And I feel so bad for him because I adore his music.

1:49.8

And I think he's like a wonderful, kind, funny guy, at least in as much as you can tell from

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