176: Sam Weinman

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Sam Weinman is Golf Digest’s digital editor. He previously covered professional golf and the NHL for Gannett Newspapers. His first book is called WIN AT LOSING: How Our Biggest Setbacks Can Lead To Our Greatest Gains

His book, Win at Losing: How Our Biggest Setbacks Can Lead to Our Greatest Gains
The truth that we learn more from losing than we do from winning
That you’re far better served listening to those who have lost constructively than those who’ve simply won
How you can learn to lose and fail better
That sports are a window into everything else in life
The difference between losing and failure
The ’87 Masters lesson
How to find the balance between being hard on yourself and beating the sh*t out of yourself
The power of talking to yourself like you would a really good friend
Shifting the emphasis away from the results and more towards an ongoing process
That if you’re always the victim, there’s nothing you can do about your circumstances
The relationship between a growth and a fixed mindset and focusing on the goal vs the results
Counterfactual thinking: Focusing on what could have been vs what is
The fact that losing teaches you more about who you are than winning teaches you
How your past doesn’t define you, it prepares you
What “not this but that” means
Post Traumatic Growth
Ways to foster resilience in yourself
Cognitive Restructuring
How important context and mindset is