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Executive Toughness

The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

Jason Selk
4.2 (718 Reviews)

『Executive Toughness』の概要

Discover the mental training program that helped the St. Louis Cardinals win the 2006 World Series. Can three minutes of daily mental exercise truly transform your leadership? The book most gifted by executives reveals how elite performers build unstoppable focus and confidence.

『Executive Toughness』の主要テーマ

  • mental toughness
  • performance visualization
  • self-image management
  • goal clarity
  • psychological resilience

『Executive Toughness』の名言

  • Good is the enemy of great.

  • The second we stop growing, we start dying.

  • You literally cannot act differently than how you conceive yourself to be.

  • Visualization proves more powerful than words alone.

『Executive Toughness』の登場人物

  • Jason SelkAuthor and Director of Mental Training
  • Maxine ClarkFounder of Build-A-Bear Workshop
  • Ben NewmanSuccessful insurance agent and national speaker

著者について

『Executive Toughness』の著者について

Dr. Jason Selk, bestselling author of Executive Toughness, is a leading mental performance coach and peak performance expert renowned for his work in sports psychology and leadership development. With a doctorate in counseling and sport psychology from the University of Missouri, Selk served as the director of mental training for the St. Louis Cardinals, helping the team secure two World Series titles. His expertise in mental toughness, goal achievement, and confidence-building extends beyond athletics to Fortune 500 executives, sales teams, and organizations like Morgan Stanley and Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

A prolific author, Selk’s works include 10-Minute Toughness, a cornerstone in sports psychology, and Organize Tomorrow Today, a top business bestseller. His insights regularly appear in Forbes and Inc., and he has been featured on ESPN, CNBC, and in USA Today.

Executive Toughness, lauded by Book Authority as one of the best career development books ever published, distills his proven strategies for overcoming adversity and sustaining high performance. The book’s principles are widely applied in corporate training programs and professional sports, cementing Selk’s reputation as a trusted authority in unlocking human potential.

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この本に関するよくある質問

Executive Toughness outlines a mental-training program to build accountability, focus, and optimism—the three pillars of peak performance. Drawing from Dr. Jason Selk’s work with Fortune 500 executives and championship athletes, the book provides daily exercises, goal-setting frameworks, and mindset shifts to help readers achieve ambitious professional and personal goals.

This book is ideal for professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs seeking to overcome distractions, eliminate excuses, and cultivate resilience. It’s particularly valuable for those navigating high-pressure careers or striving to translate potential into consistent results.

Yes—the book combines sports psychology with actionable corporate strategies, offering tools like the Relentless Solution Focus and Daily Mental Workout. Readers praise its practicality, with structured self-evaluations and visualization techniques proven in Selk’s coaching of World Series-winning teams.

Mental toughness is the ability to maintain accountability (owning outcomes), focus (executing priorities), and optimism (solution-oriented persistence). Selk argues these traits are trainable through disciplined habits like daily goal reviews and negativity replacement.

RSF requires replacing problem-focused thoughts with actionable solutions within 60 seconds. For example, instead of dwelling on a missed deadline, ask: "What’s one change I can make to hit the next milestone?" This technique builds proactive resilience.

The book advises nightly self-evaluations grading performance on a 1–10 scale, identifying one improvement opportunity. This habit, paired with a “no-excuses” mindset, strengthens personal responsibility.

It’s a detailed 5-year mental blueprint of your ideal self—professionally, physically, and personally. Selk recommends 30-second daily visualizations to align decisions with this vision, reinforcing purpose and priorities.

While both emphasize incremental progress, Selk’s approach prioritizes mental discipline over habit stacking. Executive Toughness focuses on overcoming immediate obstacles through accountability drills, whereas Atomic Habits targets long-term behavior systems.

Some readers find the military-style rigor demanding, particularly the daily 100-second focus drills and strict self-evaluation. Others note the corporate-centric examples may feel less relatable to non-business audiences.

Selk advocates scheduling “fun time” and wind-down periods as non-negotiable calendar items. The Daily Success Log includes tracking personal fulfillment metrics alongside professional wins to prevent burnout.

Yes—the RSF framework helps reframe setbacks during transitions. Chapters on optimism provide scripts for difficult conversations, while goal-setting templates clarify priorities in new roles.

Selk highlights his role in the St. Louis Cardinals’ 2006 and 2011 World Series wins, where players used these techniques under pressure. Corporate case studies show clients achieving 20–35% productivity gains within 90 days.

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