Ep5 Resilience & Positive Self-Talk

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, Dr Amanda Potter our Chief Psychology Officer looks at resilience and positive self-talk. She also starts to look at the importance of attitude or paradigm shifts to understand and face up to the emotions that could be inhibiting you from being resilient.  Amanda and Tim the podcast host in this episode are joined by Martin Hewitt to talk about his recent expedition to the South Pole. Martin was a Commissioned Officer in HM Parachute Regiment, but was medically discharged after career ending injuries sustained leading soldiers on operations in the Middle East. A former athlete on British Disabled ski team he represented GB in the International Paralympic Committee World Championships and in international races achieving numerous podium finishes. Martin is the founder of the Adaptive Grand Slam. https://www.adaptivegrandslam.com/Adaptive Grand Slam is a Charitable organisation that facilitates world record attempts and physical challenges undertaken by members of the disabled community, supported by professional guides, expedition managers and members of the public. To contact Amanda and Martin via LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/amandapotterzircon   linkedin.com/in/martin-hewitt-b5775327The Chief Psychology Officer website is now available https://www.thecpo.co.uk/To contact Amanda via email:[email protected] more information about the BeTalent Resilience Questionnaire please go to:https://www.betalent.com/product-resilienceTimestamps Resilience & Positive Self-Talk 00:00 – Introduction to Resilience & Positive Self-Talk 00:36 – What is Resilience? 01:08 – Why focus on this? 01:33 – What to look out for to enable Resilience? 01:43 – 3 EnablersEnabling Resilience in our lives 02:14 – What do you mean by “Enablers”? 03:35 – Is a more emotional person more resilient? 03:56 – Talking to ourselves 04:48 – Positive Self-Talk 05:17 – Undermining self-confidence 05:47 – Characterization 06:18 – Effects of Negative Self-Talk 06:57 – Effects of Positive Self-Talk 07:14 – Snap out of this negative funk! 07:44 – Paradigm shift? It’s not Scott of the Antarctic… 08:18 – Introduction to guest: Martin Hewitt 08:43 – Martin’s career history 10:03 – The push to starting the Adaptive Grand Slam 11:31 – What Adaptive Grand Slam is all about 13:01 – Confidence boost 13:22 – Independence boost 13:49 – Antarctic Expedition to the Pole and climbing Vincent Massive 14:35 – Walking unassisted 1200km 15:19 – The Cold & Wind; Psychological as well as Physiological 16:02 – The monotony of snow & ice 17:05 – No proper panorama Is it all doom and gloom? 19:06 – The psychological perils of the expedition 20:01 – The first few weeks were the worst 21:32 – Go into your mind… 22:32 – How much change took place? 23:09 – This is my world now 23:35 – Does persistence undermine Resilience? 24:16 – It’s all down to context 25:12 – 20 miles +, to 3 minute skiing Reaching a Learning curve 26:00 – Change the way you work to stay resilient 26:25 – What came back from the expedition? 27:14 – Preparation 27:52 – Make a decision… 29:12 – What reflections have been acquired from working with us? 30:53 – The end. Episodes are available here https://www.thecpo.co.uk/ To follow Zircon on LinkedIn and to be first to hear about podcasts, publications and news, please like and follow us: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betalent-by-zircon/ To access the research white papers mentioned in this and other podcasts, please go to: https://www.betalent.com/research For more information about the BeTalent suite of tools and platform please contact: [email protected]