"Everything starts and stops with the mind... As long as we can keep our curiosity alive, we will always err on the side of progress."
Marc Champagne
EFR 631: Train Your Mind to Work FOR You Instead of Against You by Boosting Your Mental Fitness with Marc Champagne
Marc Champagne is dedicated to helping people level up their mental fitness and the host of the top 50 ranked podcast Behind The Human and co-founder of the journaling app (KYO) which reached 86.9 million people without any paid advertising. He is the author of Personal Socrates: Questions That Will Upgrade Your Life from Legends & World-Class Performers.
As a “mental fitness strategist”, Marc has consulted with and spoken for many Fortune 500 companies on streamlining their systems and processes for increased employee happiness and organizational efficiency.
Marc defines “mental fitness” as an umbrella term for anything you can do to train your mind—whether to boost your mental health, mental resilience, mental performance, etc.
Listen in as Marc shares how anyone can build mental fortitude by asking themselves the right questions at every stage of life. Continuous growth, according to Marc, lies in pondering over these two basic questions to start with:
“Who am I now?” and “Who am I optimizing to become?”
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Key Highlights
How do you know if you’re asking yourself the right questions? Marc gives us some of his go-to prompts which he writes about in Personal Socrates.
After closing down his first business, Marc once again had to ask himself the question, “What will give me purpose?” He explains how asking it felt the second time around after achieving massive success once.
Marc talks about how anyone can start a mental fitness practice today for just a few minutes a day.
Marc shares the daily habits he follows which maximize his creativity.
One of the biggest impediments to growth is our tendency to rest on our laurels. Marc shares how we can ensure we don’t get stuck on “maintenance mode” in our life and career.
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Powerful Quotes
A good question gives us the luxury of a pause. Asked at the right time, a question can literally change our life.
Everything starts and stops with the mind.
As long as we can keep our curiosity alive, we will always err on the side of progress.
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