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Steve Magness

出生: October 11, 1984 – Houston, Texas, United States

Steve Magness is a performance coach, writer, and researcher focused on endurance training, mental toughness, and sustainable excellence. He is the author of The Science of Running and Win the Inside Game and co-author of Peak Performance and Do Hard Things. His work has influenced athletes, coaches, and business leaders.

传记与作者历程

Steve Magness first came to public attention through running. As a high school athlete, he ran 4:01 for the mile, a mark his website describes as the sixth-fastest high school mile in U.S. history at the time. He later earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Houston and a graduate degree from George Mason University. His academic path began in exercise physiology and later expanded into mental performance, giving his later work a combined focus on the body, the mind, and the relationship between them. He went on to coach widely, working with Olympians, athletes from every major professional sports league, executives, entrepreneurs, artists, and members of the U.S. military. ((https://www.stevemagness.com/about/))

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名言

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Athletes are not invincible. They are humans, who suffer from doubts, anxiety, depression, and the whole malady of mental health issues that humans do
-A coaches guide for Anxiety
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It’s in this combination of thoughts, feelings, and actions that anxiety is experienced
-Anxiety and Sport
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Controlling coaching and leading doesn't just harm performance; it harms the person
-How can a Coach Help Athletes with Anxiety?
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We’ve got to rewire our brains to make better predictions
-Stop Under performing and Learn How to Come Through in the Clutch
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Making connections is a skill that should be learned
-Lessons from outside the running world
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Where you go in your head in training is where you will go when times get tough in racing
-Episode 22- Outliers and the average- Who do we pay attention to?
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When success or failure comes, how you frame these outcomes can change not only each individuals motivation to succeed
-Episode 23- Accountability and Ownership
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We don’t take the athlete and shove them into our training or coaching philosophy
-The 5 Rules of Training

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社区声音

"In Do Hard Things, Steve Magness beautifully and persuasively reimagines our understanding of toughness"

Malcolm Gladwell

"Steve Magness makes a beautiful and compelling case for the value of inner strength over outer strength and humility over bluster"

Annie Duke

"Nobody distills the hidden principles of high performance better than Steve Magness"

Alex Hutchinson

"It is time to bring the stories in line with the research, and I think Steve Magness is perfectly positioned to do just that"

David Epstein

"Steve Magness possesses an incredible range of wisdom and knowledge about the science, psychology and practical sides of sport performance"

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"Steve Magness, elite running coach and performance guru, on what toughness looks like now"

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"Steve Magness has established himself as a leading voice in performance optimization and achieving one's personal bestness, arete as the Greek's say"

Dean Karnazes

"Steve Magness, author of Do Hard Things, uses his experience as an Olympic coach to share unparalleled tips for success"

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