How to Stop Defining Yourself by Your Failures Feat. Dr. Nate Zinsser
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This is the Ed and Marlon Show.
Hey, welcome back to the show, everybody. So this week, I want to get right into it. We're going to talk about self-confidence, and this is not your normal self-confidence podcast. You know, with the normal platitudes that you hear a million times about how to build self-confidence, this is going to be different. And the reason it's different is because of my guest. You guys know I curate guests that I believe can bring something to the table that they That haven't been at the table before for so many of you. And Dr. Zinsser is absolutely fits that criteria. Let me tell you why.
What unique perspective does Dr. Nate Zinsser bring to confidence building?
He's the director of West Point's performance psychology program, where he trains U.S. military academy cadets and leaders how to operate effectively, frankly, how to build their own self-confidence with some of the most important people in the world. He's also worked with Olympic athletes, pro sports teams. Kind of Eli Manning stands out to me because he beat my Patriots twice. So I definitely have to dive into that one. And obviously corporate leaders and elite military leaders as well. He's got a great book called The Confident Mind, bestselling book as well. This is going to be a unique conversation. It's going to help you get more confident. So Dr. Zinsser, welcome to the show.
Thank you so much for having me on it. I'm really looking forward to this.
He's also medicated. He's eight days out of knee replacement surgery. I'm just kidding.
Yeah, I'm only medicated with acetaminophen. So there will be no drowsiness. There will be no slips of the tongue. There will be no embarrassing references made.
Outstanding. And by the way, it's okay if you do. It gets us more downloads. So feel free. So let me ask you a question. I want to start out just basis, just for kind of laying a foundation. Just because I'm curious myself too. Tell me about your work at West Point. I've never been allowed anywhere near the place. So I would just like to know what your work's like there.
Well, you've got to come pay us a visit. The Military Academy is an extraordinary institution. Every year, 4,000 young men and women from all across the country and from at least a dozen foreign countries train in a very rigorous curriculum, including academic training, physical training, military training. After that 47 months experience, these young men and women are graduated with a bachelor of science degree, and they are commissioned to second lieutenants in the army. They serve a minimum of five years. Some of them go on to serve 10, 20, 30 years and reach very high ranks in the army. Others leave after five or 10 years and take leadership roles in the private sector and civilian governance.
My work at West Point, 30 years directing a performance psychology program was to take what we knew from sports science about the intangibles of human performance and take them out of any kind of mysterious or intangible framework and reduce them to learnable, practicable skills. So we were teaching cadets the how to remain confident when the crap hits the fan, which it always does, how to be focused on what's important, even though there are a million distractions, and how to retain energy and awareness and enthusiasm despite tons and tons of physical, mental, and emotional stress. So when there's a curriculum that we established, which It's been going on in West Point for over 30 years now, and it's been exported to various units outside of West Point, different Army posts around the country and around the world.
And now little pieces of it will be exported. This is what's so great about podcasting, by the way. Someone like me or, you know, probably some of my friends listening, I really could get nowhere near West Point. But through podcasting, I'm going to pick up, you know, some of the things that these elite performers have picked up in their life. So let me ask you a question. Basic question first, because I do a lot of work on self-confidence and I also work with athletes and and corporate people and CEOs, et cetera.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:03–0:34
2
What unique perspective does Dr. Nate Zinsser bring to confidence building?
0:34–27:28
3
How can you create a psychological bank account for confidence?
27:28–39:10
4
What daily practices can help rewire your brain for confidence?
39:10–40:27
Speakers
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