Positive Psychology: The Power of Practice: Lessons From 10 Years of Pushups

Sunday, August 14, 2022

The Power of Practice: Lessons From 10 Years of Pushups | Emily Saul |

https://youtu.be/hngDhaD6UaY

The Power of Practice: Lessons From 10 Years of Pushups | Emily Saul

This talk by Emily Saul, Sport Psychology + Performance Coach, explores the lessons that she learned from 10 years of practicing pushups, every day.

She introduces the value of having a practice: an ongoing and consistent relationship with a repeated action, like she has through pushups.

This practice, in the form of habit, routine, and/or ritual creates a space for learning, for developing personal growth, and for positively impacting mental + physical health, meaning + purpose, and ability to overcome challenge.

The talk offers five of the most relevant and applicable lessons for building a practice of your own.

Sport Psychology & Performance Coach, Licensed Mental Health Counselor.

Founder of E Saul Movement

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

THE 5 TOP LESSONS LEARNED

1. Let obstacles become opportunities: resistance and challenges are not bad - they are opportunities to learn

2. Not doing something perfectly does not mean you are failing: every little step/ every rep is part of a bigger goal

3. Motivation is directly related to meaning: frame your challenge around something that has purpose in your life.

4. If you want to keep doing something make it regular and give it structure: And if you want to keep enjoying something make it unusual and give it variety

5. There is a version of impressive things that works for you: if there is something that inspires you and has meaning for you practice being good at it day after day

Positive Psychology given credence by Academia:

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Commentators on the subject Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, note that:

"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the present).

At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom.

At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and the institutions that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation,tolerance, and work ethic."