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Episode: You Are the Zone: Garret Kramer Dismantles Mindset Culture, Therapy, and Self-Help Myths
Description: What if everything we’ve been taught about mindset, performance, healing, and “working on ourselves” is thoroughly ass-backwards?In this expansive and provocative conversation, former elite athlete, coach, and author Garret Kramer joins me to dismantle our modern obsession with tools, techniques, trauma narratives, and mindset hacks — and to point toward something far more radical: self-discovery.Garret shares the moment he walked out on one of the world’s top sports psychologists, why trying to “control your attitude” is a logical fallacy, and how peak performance actually arises when the doer disappears. We explore why therapy often...