Brad Stulberg on Training Your Mind for Your Best Marathon

What does it take to believe you can run a sub-two-hour marathon? Bestselling author Brad Stulberg (The Way of Excellence, Master of Change, The Practice of Groundedness) joins Michael Doyle, Alex Cyr and Katelyn Tocci to talk about the running mindset.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro: a philosophy class with Brad Stulberg
01:29 Chicago Marathon events: shakeout run, live show and watch-along
09:17 Sponsor: CEP Running
10:50 How Sabastian Sawe's coach used The Way of Excellence
12:27 Confidence comes from evidence
15:07 "Compete" means rise up together: Sawe and Kejelcha
16:00 Building your evidence file before a marathon
20:14 Discipline vs. self-kindness: the humble badass
24:32 Sponsor: Momentous
26:42 Staying process-oriented as race day gets closer
31:48 Excellence vs. perfectionism
34:15 Why you should give yourself 10 years
36:40 Plateaus, boredom and moving from gains to curiosity
43:07 Playing not to lose: approach vs. avoidance mindset
47:07 How to fail well and the 48-hour rule
50:00 Social media, Strava and external validation

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