Steve Magness: Rejected by Every Agent, He Sold 80K Copies — A Performance Scientist's Guide To Rejection
What if the spirit of self-sabotage isn't weakness at all, but a quiet strategy to make sure a loss never truly feels yours?
Alice is joined by Steve Magness — performance scientist, coach to Olympians and military teams, and the high-school phenom who ran a 4:01 mile, chased Roger Bannister's ghost, and never broke four. In his book, Win the Inside Game, he speaks about choking under pressure in sports and why talented people freeze the moment an audience shows up. But what makes Steve fascinating isn't the elite résumé — it's the self-sabotaging psychology underneath: we don't fear failure…
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