fear as fuel
How to Shift Your Brain Into HIgh Gear
Ever feel like your brain is stuck in the wrong gear? Maybe you’re trying to focus on a report, but your mind is off daydreaming about dinner (or worse, you’re stressing about everything *except* dinner!). Well, good news: there’s a “gearbox” in your brain that you can control to get your thinking on track. Yes,…
Read MoreCEOs Most Influential Leadership Books of 2021
I’m a member of Young President’s Organization (YPO) a global organization of CEOs, and as part of the Leadership Development Network I surveyed the 2,500 members and asked them what their most influential book of all time was. These are the results. The top ranked book was by my former professor at business school Jim…
Read MoreHow to have difficult conversations at work
You’ve got to fire someone. Your consulting project is way behind schedule. The budget has to get cut. In any job you’ll have to have tough conversations where fear can end up being the fuel for positive and effective change, or it can crumble you into wishing you had done the whole thing differently. With…
Read MoreProtected: Fear is Fuel Audio Book
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Read MoreWhy you (and your kids) laugh at the worst possible time
I honestly thought my grandfather was going to kill me or my brother. We’d been sitting in a tiny aluminum row boat for about two and a half hours. Way longer than most ten and eleven year old boys can, or should, have to handle. My grandfather – a passionate trout fisherman – finally latched…
Read MoreHow to use fear as fuel | TEDx Pearl Street
You know what sucks? Regret. Who wants to reach the end of their life and spend time thinking about what they wish they had done while they were still young? Not me. But I did. I didn’t know any other way. Do you? Seems like most people don’t. The main thing our wisest elders wish…
Read MoreUsing Fear As Fuel – Patrick Sweeney Webinar at MIT’s Sloan School of Management
I’m very excited and honored to be the first non-faculty member ever to lead a webinar for MIT’s Sloan School of Management’s online webinar series designed to support ongoing professional development during these challenging times. August 20th, 2020, at 10 am EST Make sure you sign up today – it will be fun and insightful!
Read More“Stress in America at an All-Time High” – American Psych. Assoc.
The American Psych. Assoc. puts stress at an all-time high. Here are four steps that can help you get it under control.
Read MorePatrick Sweeney with Marcus Luer – The Sports Entrepreneurs Podcast
Patrick Sweeney’s, fellow YPOer, recent best selling book “Fear is Fuel” and his life experiences are perfect for the current state and level of “Fear” globally. We take a deep dive into Patrick’s sports career, his entrepreneurial success and off course the “brick” that hit him when he was 35 years old and changed his life. The…
Read MoreEliminate Anxiety and Program Your Brain to Thrive in Uncertainty
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Read MoreAnxiety, stress or fear? Take Control of Your Mental Health During Coronavirus
How is your anxiety level amid all the coronavirus hysteria? If you are like most Americans, you are probably feeling stressed and confused. That’s normal from a neuroscience perspective, but if it goes on too long, it can have disastrous effects on your health. Your brain is a prediction engine. At any moment your subconscious…
Read MoreHaven’t figured out how to use Fear as Fuel? Find joy First
ALL YOUR DREAMS ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF FEAR; NOW NEUROSCIENCE SHOWS WHY DELIGHT CAN BE TOO. The presentation went great! The guy at the gym said yes! The plane landed safely.
Read MoreDo you need something to worry about?
I met my climbing partner at the gym last Tuesday and he looked like he had endured a grueling overnight flight from Tokyo.
Read MoreGoal Setting – How to make the Journey count
3 Proven Ways to Perform under pressure
There are times when we all have to perform under pressure, the threat of choking, of losing control, or of failing miserably can be a powerful force poised to ruin your life, or at least your day. Don’t let it!
Read MoreCatapult your career with Leadership Lessons from the 2018 World Champion Boston red Sox
Quite possibly the greatest baseball team of all time is touring the streets of Boston this morning in duckboats in front of hundreds of thousands of adoring fans. An entire city is in awe after a season-long display of excellence, character, grit, perseverance, teamwork and courage. How would you like hundreds of thousands of adoring…
Read MoreA 16 Second Habit That Will Change Your Life
I first began using this technique when I was training for the Olympics. As I’ve studied neuroscience over the past five years for my book “Fear is Fuel”, I realize how impactful this little routine is, and how it can literally change the quality of decisions you make every single day. It will make you…
Read MoreThe Simplest and most effective bio hack to do today.
Here’s the deal – just about everyone is afraid of taking cold showers. Bear with me because it’s a great place to practice using fear as fuel! What’s the worst that can happen; you’ll be uncomfortable for five minutes and maybe embarrassingly bit of shrivel. What’s the best that can happen – you can never…
Read MoreThe Greatest Gift we can give our children
In his early 20s, the special operations officer had already served two tours of duty in a bloody war. Back then, people didn’t admit or even know anything about post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), so he was left to himself to deal with the emotional serpents that snaked through his consciousness. At one moment he…
Read MoreFive step morning routine for success & courage in 2018
Here are the five things I do each morning, and the neuroscience behind why I do them. Start your morning off right, don’t be addicted to the dopamine fix of getting right to your phone. You have a small window each morning when your brain and body are completely clean slates – a proper morning…
Read MoreSt. Patrick’s Lessons in Courage
St Patrick was a slave around 400 AD who used fear as fuel to power a daring escape from slavery and eventually to change the world. There are some things about his courage, bravery and intelligence you might not know, and at least one thing about St Patrick’s day you can use to win a…
Read MoreLessons from Spring training – Fear & The Closer
There are two very intense and potential terrifying roles in baseball – the batter who can tie the game in the bottom of the 9th and the closing pitcher. David Aardsma was a 14 year MLB veteran who now leaders pitcher development for the Toronto Blue Jays. In this short video, he lets you into…
Read MoreOlympic Sports Psychologist Shane Murphy
I sat down with my former Sports Psychologist Shane Murphy – he was the first director of sports psychology for the U.S Olympic Training Center and helped me greatly improve my performance.
Read MoreFear of Entrepreneurship? use that to win
Know your motivation It’s really hard to build a successful start-up, doing it just to make money rarely works. If you love your industry or a technology there’s a much higher chance of success than if you are doing it so you can retire in five years. Long hours, worrying about payroll or fundraising…
Read MoreThe Bravest Man Alive – I bet you don’t even know him!
I sat down with the world’s bravest man, 89 year old Colonel Joe Kittenger (USAF RET) in Orlando, Florida to talk about what fear means to him, and what it was like to jump out of a hot air balloon at 100,000 feet; 52 years ago when cars were about as reliable as a toaster,…
Read MoreTalks at Google on Fear and Courage
Patrick was invited to the European HQ of Google in September and talk about the surprising power of fear. Here’s the talk with a great Q&A at the end.
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