Archive for Critical Thinking
Are You New York Tough?
Posted by: | CommentsI love New Yorkers. They’re straightforward and they tell it like it is. As a speaker, I always know where I stand with a NY audience. In this short video post, I explore the New York mentality as it relates to mental toughness. Watch this clip and decide if you are New York tough!
What’s Your Excuse?
Posted by: | CommentsI just spoke at the convention for Deaf business owners, and I kept asking myself the same critical thinking question: What’s my excuse? These people are deaf and they’re building empires! These amazing people define what mental toughness is all about, and I think we can all learn from them. Watch this short video and see what you think. I’ll look forward to your comments. Steve Siebold
Mental Toughness on Alcatraz
Posted by: | CommentsI took a short break from my 5-city speaking tour to visit Alcatraz Island, the famous prison in San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz closed in 1963, but I was able to interview one of the last surviving inmates of the prison, who just happened to be there promoting his book. No kidding. Talk about about a tough guy! He was at least 80 years old, but still spoke like a gangster in an Al Capone movie. He talked about how the inmates would look out from the prison across bay and see the bright lights and big city of San Francisco. They could even hear the parties held at the local yacht club. They were trapped in the most secure prison in the world, yet only a mile and a half away was everything they wanted. He said it was psychological torture. It made me think about the thousands of emails I’ve received over the years from people saying the same thing. They knew their dream life was so close they could touch it, but a barrier of some kind kept them from it. The difference is most people don’t know what’s holding them back. It took me several years to identify my barrier, but when I did it changed my life. Do you know yours? Watch this short video and see what you think. I’ll look forward to your comments. Steve Siebold ( 3:31 )
Mental Toughness and Emotion
Posted by: | CommentsPassionate people are among the most powerful on earth. They are great salespeople, entrepreneurs and philanthropists. But the truth is most people don’t know how to separate logic from emotion, or how to use each to their benefit. The result is left brain, logic-based thinkers tend to minimize the power of emotion; while right brain, emotion-based thinkers tend to overuse emotion and blend it into every decision they make. Both personality types are one-sided and relegated to middle-class thinking and decision making. I’ve spent the last 14 years teaching Fortune 500 sales teams how to use emotion for motivation and logic in decision making, and the result has been hundreds of millions of dollars in increased sales. Knowing when to use emotion to drive yourself as well as when to remove it from your decision making is critical to achieving world-class success. Watch this video and see what you think. As always, I want to welcome all the new subscribers from around the world to the mental toughness blog. All of us look forward to reading your comments and having you become an active member of this very talented community. Steve Siebold (12:00)
Building a World-Class Belief System
Posted by: | CommentsMy research has led me to the conclude that the foundation of world-class success is a world-class belief system. Very few people have been exposed to world-class beliefs, but in this 5-minute segment of my national television show, Mental Toughness with Steve Siebold, I discuss the beliefs I uncovered over a 26-year period interviewing some of the world’s most successful people. I also talk about how to teach these beliefs to your kids. Steve Siebold ( 4:57 )
Mental Toughness Champion or Cold Blooded Killer?
Posted by: | CommentsDr. Jack Kevorkian assisted over 130 people terminally ill patients in ending their lives, and served 8 years in prison as his compensation. “Dr. Death” as some people call him, got of of prison in 2007 and is the subject of a new HBO movie called; You Don’t Know Jack, starring Al Pacino. This is a movie every critical thinker should see, because it raises a fundamental question: “Do we have the right to end of own lives?” The U.S. government says no. Watch this short post and see what you think. I’ll look forward to your comments and another spirited debate. Steve Siebold ( 4:41 )
U.S. Government Mentally Tough?
Posted by: | CommentsThe hallmark of mental toughness is personal responsibility. Part of which is fiscal responsibility. So is the U.S. Government practicing this? Watch this post for some potential critical thinking solutions to America’s biggest problems and see what you think. After watching, join in on the discussion by giving us YOUR opinion on these ideas as well as offering ideas of your own. Our collective critical thinking brainpower represents unlimited potential. I’ll look forward to your comments.
Steve Siebold
Mental Toughness and NonLinear Thinking
Posted by: | CommentsWhile all of us were trained in school to think in logical, linear terms, we all know nonlinear thinking is the real secret to complex problem solving. The wealthy use it to get richer; politicians use it to get elected, and world-class thinkers use it to get what they want. Training your mind to create nonlinear solutions to seemingly unsolvable problems is one of the most challenging aspects of the mental toughness process. It’s also one of the most valuable and profitable. This single skill made a multimillionaire at a fairly young age, and it’s something anyone can learn. Watch this post from my TV show, Mental Toughness with Steve Siebold. I’ll look forward to your comments. –PS: Try not to laugh too hard at my Cheerleader story—it’s completely true—and pretty pathetic! (But FUN!) 
Siebold’s European Speaking Tour
Posted by: | CommentsOn a recent speaking tour in Europe, I was interviewed on the BBC five times in one week. Some of my comments regarding Prime Minister Gordon Brown ended up on the front page of the Daily Mirror Newspaper. The British press was wild, but fair. This short video post, taped outside the All England Tennis Club in London, is about identifying your world-class dream. Please share your world-class dream with the Mental Toughness Blog Community after you watch this post. Steve Siebold
Death Threats: Logic vs. Emotion
Posted by: | CommentsThanks to everyone who commented on the Obama-Care Disaster post, especially to Mike Michelozzi and Jane Barr, who really dug into this post with their opinions and ideas. Five major newspapers called me for interviews within 14 hours of this post, and I appreciate the Canadian and U.S. press for their continued support of this blog. Just hours after President Obama signed the health care bill into Law, several congressman have received death threats. These events occur when people allow their emotions to cloud their judgment. Mentally tough performers use emotion to create passion, but never allow their passion, no matter how intense, to overrule left brain logical thinking and reasoning. Out of control emotion leads to frustration, which quickly becomes rage and sometimes escalates to violence. This is why mental toughness and critical thinking are so important, especially when it comes to debating major issues such as health care. In essence, the mentally weak can’t control their emotions so they attack their opponents personally, and sometimes even physically. This is the primary reason we’ve all been taught not to discuss sex, politics or religion in mixed company. Most people become so emotionally overwhelmed when someone presents an opposing view that they become seriously offended. That’s an embarrassing assessment of the masses, but difficult to dispute after 26 years of research. We’ll continue to address all of these topics and more on this blog, because this subscriber base can not only handle the most challenging issues, they aren’t afraid to speak out and give their opinions. I love you guys! I’ll look forward to your comments.
