Russell received two 2021 Americana Awards nominations, won three Canadian Folk Music Awards, two UK Americana Music Awards, and more. But if these superficial goals don’t resonate with your actual desires, you’re unlikely to meet them. The section on the brain and the inner voices was helpful and something new I’ve walked away with from this book.

Drawing from mindfulness, military case studies, sports psychology, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, he provides a roadmap for navigating life's challenges and achieving high performance that makes us happier, more successful, and, ultimately, better people.But it’s a critical school and life skill to know how to do hard things — and no, giving up is not an option.

But the more space you can create between experiencing a feeling and capitulating to the urge for a freak-out, the more likely you are to successfully navigate challenging situations. Real toughness means processing stressors thoughtfully, deliberately, and with vulnerability, rather than superficially and rigidly.The twins have been blessed to travel and speak in major cities around the world and have been featured nationally on ABC, CNN, MSNBC, and NPR, as well as in publications like the "Wall Street Journal,""Wired" magazine,""and "The New York Times.

This could mean traveling to a new country, even if you go through a tour company, you’ll still be experiencing different cultures. In Do Hard Things, Steve Magness beautifully and persuasively reimagines our understanding of toughness. Real toughness is living in the nuance of complexity of the environment, bodies and minds we inhabit.The topics range from capacity, training, focus, mindfulness, emotion, thoughts, feelings, framing, inner voices, etc.