--- product_id: 431994888 title: "Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness" price: "€ 36.76" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.at/products/431994888-do-hard-things-why-we-get-resilience-wrong-and-surprising store_origin: AT region: Austria --- # Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness **Price:** € 36.76 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness - **How much does it cost?** € 36.76 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.at](https://www.desertcart.at/products/431994888-do-hard-things-why-we-get-resilience-wrong-and-surprising) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "In Do Hard Things , Steve Magness beautifully and persuasively reimagines our understanding of toughness. This is a must-read for parents and coaches and anyone else looking to prepare for life's biggest challenges."—Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and Talking to Strangers and host of the Revisionist History podcast From beloved performance expert, executive coach, and coauthor of Peak Performance Steve Magness comes a radical rethinking of mental toughness and what it means to achieve our high ambitions in the face of hard things. Toughness has long been held as the key to overcoming a challenge and achieving greatness, whether it is on the sports field, at a boardroom, or at the dining room table. Yet, the prevailing model has promoted a mentality based on fear, false bravado, and hiding any sign of weakness. In other words, the old model of toughness has failed us. Steve Magness, a performance scientist who coaches Olympic athletes, rebuilds our broken model of resilience with a new definition of inner strength grounded in the latest science and psychology. In Do Hard Things , Magness teaches us how we can work with our body – how experiencing discomfort, leaning in, paying attention, and creating space to take thoughtful action can be the true indications of cultivating such resilience. He offers four core pillars to cultivate such resilience: Pillar 1: Ditch the Façade, Embrace Reality Pillar 2: Listen to Your Body Pillar 3: Respond, Instead of React Pillar 4: Transcend Discomfort Smart and wise all at once, this life-changing self-help book flips the script on what it means to be resilient. Drawing from mindfulness, military case studies, sports psychology, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, he provides a roadmap for navigating life’s challenges, overcoming performance anxiety, and achieving the kind of high performance that makes us happier, more successful, and, ultimately, better people. Review: Great book, which describes how to get really Tough - Very well written book that analyses very well and in depth what is real toughness. Not army toughness, not sport team toughness. Or not just that toughness. It teaches how to gain Polar star, and how to follow that no matter what. Review: it’s hard to be resilient and tough! - There’s a lot more to resilience and toughness than just gritting it out; true resilience is a system of mental and physical strategies that leverage characteristics of our minds to steer us forward without either hobbling up prematurely, or overestimating our capabilities and falling short. Steve derives lessons from his personal background (as an OCD sufferer) and professional background as a cross country running coach to help readers understand and develop those strategies, which include accurate self perception and interpreting those feelings effectively, modes of focusing thought, and separating thought from action. He presents some interesting exercises to help readers develop toughness whether in a physical or intellectual domain. I had hoped there would be more material about intellectual discipline, but there’s plenty to get going here. ## Features - Pillar 1- Ditch the Façade, Embrace Reality - Pillar 2- Listen to Your Body - Pillar 3- Respond, Instead of React - Pillar 4- Transcend Discomfort ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #6,441 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #7 in Popular Applied Psychology #21 in Popular Psychology Personality Study #112 in Success Self-Help | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,239 Reviews | ## Images ![Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+pnb1BMOL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book, which describes how to get really Tough *by A***R on February 24, 2026* Very well written book that analyses very well and in depth what is real toughness. Not army toughness, not sport team toughness. Or not just that toughness. It teaches how to gain Polar star, and how to follow that no matter what. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ it’s hard to be resilient and tough! *by N***H on July 23, 2025* There’s a lot more to resilience and toughness than just gritting it out; true resilience is a system of mental and physical strategies that leverage characteristics of our minds to steer us forward without either hobbling up prematurely, or overestimating our capabilities and falling short. Steve derives lessons from his personal background (as an OCD sufferer) and professional background as a cross country running coach to help readers understand and develop those strategies, which include accurate self perception and interpreting those feelings effectively, modes of focusing thought, and separating thought from action. He presents some interesting exercises to help readers develop toughness whether in a physical or intellectual domain. I had hoped there would be more material about intellectual discipline, but there’s plenty to get going here. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Toughness redefined *by N***S on January 11, 2025* This book found me when I was feeling despondent. I was feeling helpless against forces larger than myself and hopeless in a world that seems to be making strange choices that will inflict more harm than good. How to continue to battle, to grit it out, was looking insurmountable. Steve Magness provides a great counterpoint to the American idea of Toughness; one that promotes empathy, embracing reality, and reframing our situations in a grounded, realistic way that is encouraging and ultimately more rewarding than the old thoughts of Toughness that focused on suppression and grinding ourselves into the ground. This is a great book to read if you're looking for perspective and to slow things down in a world that continues to expect more and more from an individual, at a faster pace, and to no conceivable end. Slow down, take your time, and enjoy the read. ## Frequently Bought Together - HarperOne Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness - Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.at/products/431994888-do-hard-things-why-we-get-resilience-wrong-and-surprising](https://www.desertcart.at/products/431994888-do-hard-things-why-we-get-resilience-wrong-and-surprising) --- *Product available on Desertcart Austria* *Store origin: AT* *Last updated: 2026-05-10*