How Your Mindset Affects Your Health
WHY YOU SHOULD LISTEN:
If you want to know the incredible effect our mindset has on our performance and ability to grow through challenge, you’ll want to listen to this.
PAT’S TAKE
Ever wondered how and why two people facing the exact same challenge can have radically different experiences and outcomes? Me too, until I listened to this episode and learnt exactly why.
Dr Alia Crum - American psychologist and a leading researcher in the science of mindsets - shares some mind blowing research and studies demonstrating the power of mindset on our ability to embrace challenge. I love how she goes one step further in taking that science and turning it into practical, actionable steps we can implement to upgrade our mindset.
KEY IDEAS
① Mindsets shape biology: What you believe about a situation can alter your body’s physiological response to that event.
② Reframing stress can make it productive: Viewing stress as functional and performance enhancing will make it exactly so, whereas seeing it as harmful and debilitating amplifies its negative effects.
③ Beliefs influence health outcomes: How you think about sleep, exercise and recovery changes how your body responds to them.
④ Mindsets are trainable: These aren’t static personality traits - they are cognitive constructs that you can shape with intention and practice.
LISTEN TO THIS IF…
You want science-backed insights on how mindset impacts health and performance
You want evidence-based, practical tools to upgrade your mindset to grow through the challenges that you face
You want to know how your perception of whether a meal is healthy or unhealthy, impacts how our body metabolises that meal
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