Ranjay Gulati

And he called this research self-efficacy, what in local parlance we would call can-do mindset.

I can do it.

Now you see that with entrepreneurs, not all, some entrepreneurs.

No matter how many setbacks come their way and the business is failing, they're running out of cash, everything is going wrong.

I don't know, I'm going to get it done.

I can do it.

I got it.

I'll figure it out.

What I was trying to do was understand how these people resource themselves in different ways to really take on fear.

I'll give you one last one and then I'll promise to shut up.

It's calm.

And this one you've dealt with in some of your episodes.

Because one way to think about calm is meditation.

The modern day psychology version of this is what is called emotional self-regulation.

So sports psychologists are all over this.

Because what is their number one job?

To keep their player calm in the face of a very stressful situation.

And there's a whole bunch of strategies inside the calm chapter where I talk about how do these people, and meditation is a very important part of that story too, by the way.

But there are other tactical things they do as well.

So one of them is rituals.