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Author of Do Hard Things & Win the Inside Game: bit.ly/4 Performance Coach: Mental & Physical Performance
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We're Instilling Fear of Failure

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By Steve Magness
| stevemagness.org
“I see so many kids that are so anxious to do the wrong thing because the coach or the parent is yelling at them throughout the game that it drives me crazy.” That’s Landon Donovan, arguably the greatest American soccer player ever, describing exactly how we create fear of failure. And another legend and science backs him up. The late Kobe Bryant once pulled a parent aside at his daughter’s basketball practice who was yelling from the sideline, and told them,“Don’t say anything.
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The Secret? Performing Out of Joy Instead of Fear or Need

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By Steve Magness
| Substack
Fun is the greatest performance enhancer. And Erling Haaland is showing us how and why. Before taking on Brazil, Erling Haaland told his teammates: “No matter what happens just smile and enjoy it. Just live in the moment because we did everything we can... just enjoy playing football.” Then he scored twice and Norway knocked out a 5-time World Cup champion... Haaland is having a blast. He’s known as the “smiling assassin,” joking around with teammates and opponents before unleashing.
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We turned doing hard things into posting hard things.

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By Steve Magness
| Substack
 We need to do hard things. In a world that lets us shortcut almost everything—from taking performance-enhancing drugs to outsourcing our writing to AI—there’s something magical, and much needed, about the thing that forces you out of your comfort zone. It makes us feel something in a world where we increasingly numb and distract our way out of our own internal experience. Doing hard things reminds us we’re alive.
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