If you’re interested in living your best life, and helping people close to you live their best lives, then put down what you're doing and watch Dr. Gio Valiante’s recent conversation with Keith McCullough. It's overflowing with powerful (actually priceless) wisdom which applies to virtually every area of our lives.
Below is a taste. Watch the full discussion here.
As one of the world’s top performance coaches, Dr. Gio has witnessed and helped orchestrate more success stories than most. He’s worked with some of the world's highest performing golfers, championship football teams and hedge fund managers.
One of the most important things he's learned over the years? Failure is a critically important and necessary step in the journey to real and enduring success and fulfillment. Dr. Gio shared his perspective on the importance of resiliency (and a lot more) during the Hedgeye Investing Summit.
Here's an excerpt:
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“One of the tragedies—I believe this to be true—of our current times we live in is overprotecting people. The psychologist Abraham Maslow talks about this. Disrespecting people by thinking that they need your protection all the time. It’s tragic. In the absence of letting people experience life, you’re preventing the development of resilience. The development of resilience is the greatest gift. Life is hard. This is from time immemorial. Suffering is the universality of the human condition. If you don’t have mechanisms to deal with hard times, you’re going to be anxious and depressed and life is going to be sad. When boxers get punched again and again, you know what happens? Their bones calcify and they get stronger. When people go blind, you know what happens? Their hearing gets better. When we’re hot, we sweat. When we’re cold, we get goosebumps. As human beings, we are designed to adapt. When you overprotect people from developing the mechanisms that make them resilient, you’re also protecting them from having belief in themselves. |
