It Takes What It Takes audiobook

Great premise, and excellent actionable tips. The content starts off strong. The main points come in the first half of the book. Neutral thinking makes sense when explained vs positive or negative thinking. The storytelling is well-written and interesting. However, the latter portions didn’t illuminate any new ideas. I’d recommend this book. It’s a fast read. Skim the later chapters.

Positive thinking not working? Negative throught spirals the enemy? Insert, Trevor and his clear, accessible, and relatable perspective on every day success. Success is built brick-by-brick. Choices are the bricks and mindset is mortar. Laying one brick, with the correct mortar, and then the next is the key. Simple? Yes. Easy? No. Again, insert Trevor and his world-class friends dropping world-class advice bombs. I loved this book. It's going on my immediate recommendation list for people who have goals.

One of my all time favorites. I have read it multiple times and each time I learn something different.

This book has some powerful messages. Way, way, way back in my athletic career, I never gave any credit to the mental conditioning side of things. Usually, the people I saw using it were people’s who I considered mentally weak. I’m learning now what I wish I would have learned a long time ago...Your own thoughts are the most powerful driver behind your actions. This is meaningful for every single person, not just athletes, and not just sales people.

It Takes What It Takes: Russell Wilson by Trevor Moawad It Takes What It Takes: Russell Wilson by Trevor Moawad is a book written by a mentor of mental health (Trevor Moawad) for professional athletes like Russell Wilson. In the book, he talks about his experiences with Russell Wilson and how he helped him keep his mind clear with a growth mindset so he can play to the best of his ability. Russell Wilson battled through struggles at the start of his career like not performing the best or going through the passing of his father. Being an NFL quarterback is not an easy job. Russell talked about how hard it was to balance a regular life with his family when football was getting in the way. That’s when Trevor stepped in to help, he completely changed Russell Wilson’s career and helped transform him into the superstar he is today. Russell Wilson has credited him multiple times with the media for what he did for his career. Trevor didn’t just go as far as helping only Russell, he wrote It Takes What It Takes for everyone going through mental battles. He gives us advice, what to do in specific situations, and how to handle life positively. This is mainly for athletes so I can see how this book relates to most people and enjoy this amazing book. I give this book 5 stars because of how relatable the advice was and how I could use this book for future reference. This book is mainly for high school athletes and above who may be struggling with pressure or nerves while playing sports but, some kids can also read and benefit from it too. Lastly, people in my grade that could benefit from reading this book could be Sydney Guthard because she played varsity volleyball as a freshman, Landon Cose because he has to balance both baseball and basketball in one year, Eli Holt because he is playing football and baseball, and lastly anyone who is an athlete in our grade or Norris High School. It Takes What It Takes by Trevor Moawad is a phenomenal book and is for sure one that I will keep around for as long as I need it!

It Takes What It Takes: How to Think Neutrally and Gain Control of Your LifeTHIS BOOK IS FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE 100% SKIN IN THE GAME. It's for people who see no option or have no option but to succeed and perform at a high level every single day. This book is the blueprint for the mindset of how the greats sustainably do it. Some of the reviews on this book are unfair and I assume it's because those people do not have to continuously perform at a high level under crushing demands. I'm a business owner and struggle with staying on my A-game (or just even keel) after going through a few too many years of life beating me down and the never-ending pressures/demands of being a business owner. I became deflated and extremely fatigued, yet was keenly aware that I was self-sabotaging and did not have a clue as to how to stop my spiraling. In 2019, I started drinking wine every single evening just to numb the stress and by 2020, I had a drinking problem that I was very ashamed of. No one around me was on my level or even in the same world of problems and stress so there was no way in hell they could help me. I needed a sustainable way of behaving, responding, dealing, and thinking about daily life while ambitiously growing my business and enjoying daily life. I've read more books than you can imagine. Some have really helped strategically with my business, but yet there I was with my sh** habits and responses to stress that were killing me and leaving on the constant verge of a breakdown. THIS BOOK CHANGED MY LIFE. I needed to learn the way people who have 100% SKIN IN THE GAME go about their day-to-day and also live fulfilling lives. I know I am the person and leader this book speaks to the most. If you have a demanding life that you want to get control of, read this book.

Tremenda combinación del famoso mantra: el deporte como la vida.Al final para ser exitoso, independientemente de cómo lo definas, no hay muchos caminos por dónde irse.It takes disciplina, It takes elecciones difíciles, It takes liderazgo, It takes controlar tu campaña de marketing interna, It takes entender que solo lo que harás es lo que puedes controlar.Al final, It takes what It takes.Hermoso libro.

Was told to read this by my current mentor at work, and honestly, as some who doesn't like self-help/business books, this one wasn't half bad. I could've lived without ALL of the sports ball references, but I guess that comes with the territory. I did appreciate the concept behind "don't say stupid shit out loud," and the fact that he talks like a real person, not in constant toxic positivity.

Good book and important topic of how people think!

“No matter where I work, the same truth keeps emerging. Neutral thinking is the key to unlocking a set of behaviors that can turn also-rans into champions and champions into legends.” - Trevor Moawad from It Takes What It Takes: How to Think Neutrally and Gain Control of Your Life“It’s what you do, not how you feel, that gets things done. We can do our way into feeling the way we need to. It’s hard to feel our way into achieving a damn thing.” - Trevor Moawad from It Takes What It Takes: How to Think Neutrally and Gain Control of Your Life“No matter what situation you find yourself in, there is almost always a behavior you can easily identify that, if you eliminate it, will set you on a better path.” - Trevor Moawad from It Takes What It Takes: How to Think Neutrally and Gain Control of Your LifeI got this book after a bunch of people recommended I check it out.I’m a big fan of mental toughness books—whether that’s coming from peak performers in the sports world or other leadership roles.Trevor Moawad is a mental conditioning coach to elite performers. He is well known for being the mental coach to Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and has worked closely with prestigious NCAA football programs and coaches, the US Special Operations community, Major League Baseball, and the NBA.This book is, as per the sub-title, all about “How to Think Neutrally and Gain Control of Your Life.” I loved it and, if you’re also equally fired up by the mental toughness in sports and life genre, I think you’ll enjoy it as much as I did.Below are some of my favorite Big Ideas from this book. You can hear more about this book here: It Takes Neutral ThinkingGoats and G.O.A.T.SThe Law of Substitution (Aka the Law of Focus)The Illusion of ChoiceDraw Your Line in the DirtWant to gain control of your life? Know that It Takes What It Takes. Start thinking neutrally, let go of the illusion of choice, practice the Law of Substitution and step into the arena of your most heroic life.Let’s have the Wisdom to know the game we’re playing and how to play it well. And the Self-Mastery to play it well RIGHT NOW.Let’s ask ourselves the question, “Now what needs to be done?” And then go do it. In other words: Let’s draw a line in the dirt and get to it. Then draw another one. And keep going. TODAY.I’ve added It Takes What It Takes: How to Think Neutrally and Gain Control of Your Life by Trevor Moawad to my collection of PhilosophersNotes. (Which help you change your life, 20-minutes at a time, with the best Big Ideas from 600+ of the best books on Optimizing your life via 6-page PDFs/20-min MP3s on the go!)Get instant (free) access to all 600+ PhilosophersNotes AND all 50 Optimal Living 101 classes AND 1,000+ Optimize +1s as part of our free 2-week trial: http://optimize.me/

Read it! This should be a class taught in schools, especially inner cities. May have too much sports "lingo" for some but the message and actions that can be taken are CLEAR!!!

I'm familiar with some of the book's philosophy having read Nick Saban's "How Good Do You Want To Be" and seeing it discussed in Coach Saban's interviews. Trevor Moawad has worked with Coach Saban and the Crimson Tide as well as other successful college and professional programs and players. The focus of the book is not to embrace positive thinking when rejecting negative thinking, but to embrace neutral thinking.Neutral thinking is best described by Dr. Christine Porath in a Psychology Today review of the book: "The idea is simple: Stay in the moment; react to each moment as it unfolds. Focus on influencing your next action. Don’t get sucked into analyzing past failures or hijacked by future fears or thoughts. Ground yourself in the present, focused on the next behavior. One play at a time."Moawad describes specific personal and professional examples of neutral thinking in action, how it can help in extremely challenging situations, and its use outside of sports. The book discusses how to be self-aware, handling the negativity that surrounds us and the negative voices within, and the increase in ineffectiveness when we voice that negativity. The goal is not to just see the positive things in the world, but to control what we mentally consume, think about what we are doing and how we are doing it, and how to bring the best out in others through our own insights.This is not a "rah rah" self-help book but a life is difficult so here's how you can keep doing the work, performing well when you feel poor, and how to bounce back from the inevitable failures that may or may not have been a result of your decisions. I'm sure I'll listen to this audiobook many more times on my walks.

** spoiler alert ** Avoid this book if you 1) hate Russell Wilson, 2) just asked “Who is Russell Wilson?” 3) don’t care about professional sports in the United States. If you’re still with me after those three asterisks, this book is a phenomenal glimpse into the professional world of male sports excellence. Perhaps I’d been living under a rock, but the concept of neutral thinking was new to me. I am internally negative but express positivity in public. This book introduced me to a third way: Accept the reality of what I’m up against. Do what it takes to get through it or even excel in tough circumstances. I particularly bought into the “illusion of choice,” the concept that the paths to greatness in any field are so small as to reduce the concept of choice. If you want to meet a lofty goal, there’s no real choice on how to get there. It’s likely someone came before you and charted the path you need to emulate to get there. The book is a dude-bro manifesto from the athletic-industrial complex, which is enough to deter many readers. Yet there’s some tenderness under the bravado. The author’s dad was a somewhat-celebrity in the positive psychology field. He raised the author as a real-life test of his ideas and concepts. The author ultimately lost his dad to cancer, but it’s clear the author took his dad’s lessons to heart on his way to emulating his career.