Forge Unbreakable Mental Resilience with Dr. Brandon Orr

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this captivating episode, cognitive specialist Dr. Brandon Orr and Spartan founder Joe De Sena dive deep into the neuroscience behind unlocking your brain's full potential.

Discover proven strategies to build unbreakable mental resilience, conquer self-doubt and anxiety, and develop the grit and determination of elite performers.

Learn how to silence your inner critic and unleash your true capabilities. This is a must-listen for anyone striving to optimize their cognitive function and reach new heights of success.

Highlights:

00:00 Intro
00:56 What is a cognitive performance specialist?
03:12 The stigma around mental health
04:36 Acknowledge failure, identify constraints, and reengage
08:12 Anxiety triggering a sympathetic response
13:14 Identifying constraints limiting performance and adapting
15:20 Recognizing the signs of warning to stay in the game safely
18:43 Can words cause damage?
20:25 Challenges of comparing trauma
25:24 How to level up your game?
27:57 Overcome anxiety by reframing thoughts

Transcript

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0:00.0	You and I have done it. We've received a bad grade, a bad match, a bad run, a bad race and it feels like it's the end of the world.
0:08.0	I certainly felt it myself as a college athlete. If we're talking a college athlete 19 years old had a really really bad game. There are
0:16.3	19 year olds in the Congo whose reality is break back labor with no advocacy whatsoever. I have to figure this out versus I want to
0:29.6	figure this out. That's where stress is injected at its highest level.
0:35.0	Welcome to the Hardway Podcast with Joe DeCenna, founder and CEO of Spartan Races.
0:40.0	We're teaching you how to overcome your obstacles in your life the same way we teach our 10 million plus Spartans to overcome obstacles on the course.
0:48.0	With insight from the smartest, most accomplished experts from every corner of the world.
0:52.8	Get ready to elevate your life today.
0:56.8	Joe DeScenta here, CEO and founder of Spartan
1:00.0	and hosted a Hardway podcast. I've got my buddy Dr. Brendan Orr,
1:05.0	cognitive, well, do I say cognitive specialist,
1:08.0	nor a co- how do I say it, Brendan?
1:10.0	The bill that under special operations is cognitive performance
1:14.2	specialists. The tradecraft is cognitive neuroscience specialists sport and
1:19.4	performance psychology. It's kind of a gamut of all of those intersections.
1:24.0	Even that description that you just gave, and by the way, thank you for working with special, you know,
1:30.0	operators, special forces operators because we wouldn't have the freedom we have at least I believe we
1:35.7	wouldn't have the freedom we have we didn't have military and uniform services
1:39.7	doing what they do so if you're helping them you're helping us which which is
1:42.4	awesome just the mouthful of you explaining
1:46.2	the terminology makes it interesting because like it's so much easier to talk about like a
1:50.9	bicep pump for a bench press.
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