Mental Performance Daily with Brian Cain

In this episode Brian discusses the importance of creating an AM Routine and breaks down the one week challenge given to you by Dr. Maya Shankar. Dr. Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist who has a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience from Stanford, a Ph. D. from Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and a B.A. from Yale. She’s also the executive producer and host of the podcast A Slight Ch...

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian continues his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books that he has read recently. Today he breaks down The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz.   (1) The 4 Elements of Excusitis (2) The Nike Rule - Just Do It (3) To Think Confidently, Act Confidently You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by...

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian continues his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books that he has read recently. Today he breaks down Hyper Focus by Chris Bailey. Productivity (Redefined) Accomplishing what we intend Hyperfocus You at your best = ? How to Hyperfocus 1 + 2 + 3 + 4. Intentions Vague vs. implementation. Productivity Potential Ex...

In this Mental Performance Daily Sunday Meditation, Brian recaps the lessons from the week’s episodes so that you can revisit what you learned, embed it into your elite mindset and continue to grow into the best version of yourself through this guided mental imagery practice and meditation. Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, st...

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian continues his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books that he has read recently. Today he breaks down Brain Maker by David Perlmutter. The Power of Probiotics Is huge.  Your Second Brain In your gut.  Your Immune System 70-80% is in your gut.  Symptoms vs. Root Cause Let’s focus on the root causes!  Small Gut C...

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian continues his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books that he has read recently. Today he breaks down Focus by Daniel Goleman.   6-2-8 Breathing Exercise Concentration Grids Rumination vs. Reflection Strengthen Your Focus Muscles Relentless Solution Focus Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9IZVAvI4EY https...

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian continues his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books or courses in The Optimize App. Today he breaks down Optimizing Algorithms 101 with Brian Johnson.   (1) What’s An Algorithm - Systems That Run Your Life (Habits) (2) If Then Intentions To Save Willpower (3) Keystones & Kryptonites (4) Masterpiece System for...

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian continues his Book Battalion and breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down Habits 101 from Optimize/Heroic with Brian Johnson. Habits 101 is a summary of the best books on Habits and distills what all of the experts say consistently and that’s what we all want to pay attention to what the experts all say consistently....

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian continues his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down The Power of Habit Jack Hodge. Brian discusses: (1) Dreamers vs. Doers (2) The Common Denominator of All Successful Performers (3) Your Daily Do What Sucks Training (4) Replacing Over Erasing (5) The Importance of Early Morning Work You...

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian continues his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed.   (1) 50 lbs for an Avs. Perfect piece of pottery (2) Cumulative Adaptation It’s incalculable potency (The Compound Effect) You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here. Li...

In this Mental Performance Daily Sunday Meditation, Brian recaps the lessons from the week’s episodes so that you can revisit what you learned, embed it into your elite mindset and continue to grow into the best version of yourself through this guided mental imagery practice and meditation. Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, st...

In this episode Brian shares one of his favorite stories about magician and escape artist Harry Houdini and the importance of not getting in your own way. Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be wit...

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian begins his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down Make Your Bed by William McRaven.   You can view McRaven’s 2014 University of Texas Commencement speech where he outlines 10 Ways to Change The World by Starting With Yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxBQLFLei70 (1) The Ten Lesson...

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian begins his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. (1) An Efficient Brain Why we have habits (Make it Easier on yourself) (2) Cue + Routine + Reward How’s your loop? (3) Get a Cue! And shape your life. (4) Keystone Habits Are H.U.G.E. (5) Exercise Chan...

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian begins his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande https://www.heroic.us/optimize/authors/atul-gawande (1) Brown M&M’s Why Van Halen doesn’t like them (2) Your Keystone Initiative Your Big 3 Checklist https://www.optimize.me/pn/the-checklist-manifest...

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian begins his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down Superhuman by Habit by Tynan. (1) Consistency -> Is everything. (2) Don’t Miss a Day -> Seriously. Don’t. -> Never Skip Twice -> Absolutely (!) don’t do that. (3) Evaluating Progress -> Focus on process more than results. (Measure The Proc...

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian begins his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down Mini Habits by Stephen Guise. (1) Make your habits too small to fail, tiny is mighty (2) It's what we do daily that compounds over time and makes the biggest difference (3) Small goals impressive results vs impressive goals and small resul...

In this Mental Performance Daily Sunday Meditation, Brian recaps the lessons from the week’s episodes so that you can revisit what you learned, embed it into your elite mindset and continue to grow into the best version of yourself through this guided mental imagery practice and meditation. Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, st...

In this episode Brian shares a story about a young Italian boy and his family traveling on a cruise ship and a costly mistake that they made during the voyage that you might be making in your voyage called life. You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here. Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing Join Br...

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian begins his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down The Slight Edge by Jeff Olsen. You can listen to The Success Hotline Podcast with Dr. Rob Gilbert here. Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0jgcS1TQ3qIiq4J1Z8VckP?si=QhWhrGI-QNCglpKceMc8-w&nd=1 You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 readin...

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian begins his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy. You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here. Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qZ_3jqFJmt0bOP8ot08e-1SZIUJ-LJgGy-RJXmKkUT8/edit?usp=sharing Join Brian Cain and h...

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian begins his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down Atomic Habits by James Clear. You can pick up the Habit Share App Brian talks about here You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here. Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20...

In this episode of The Mental Performance Daily Podcast, Brian begins his Book Battalion in which he breaks down one of his favorite books. Today he breaks down Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg. You can follow along with Brian’s 2022 reading schedule by clicking here. Join Brian Cain and his friends at Optimize/Heroic by getting their great 20 minute audio book summaries so you can follow along with Brian’s...

In this episode Brian wraps up his 8 day mini seminar on the “One Week Challenge” with a challenge to you to make a decision and a reminder that your decisions determine your destiny. Brian Cain, MPM, the World’s leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you ar...

In this episode Brian continues a weekly breakdown of the new Ironclad Original Series Podcast “One Week Challenge” Each day this week he breaks down a challenge that’s been offered to you by a world class performer and next week, it’s your mission to start executing on one of the challenges from this week. Ashley Horner is a fitness model, an endurance athlete, a Tactical Games competitor, entrep...