High Performance: Lessons from the Best on Becoming Your Best

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There is some jargon but it’s admittedly modest for a book of the genre. There is talk of prolific quality output (PQO, of course), and “performance necessity,” and you will have to get your head around, “They [high performers] remember that the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” It’s a central theme. Then he goes on to suggest ways to do that. And his insights about youth, some 40 years ago, are still exactly applicable to youth today. The millennial generation has a bad rap for a lot of reasons, but they are reminding us to organise our life more purposefully. To live with greater intent. And the way they’re going about it is stirring up the older generations. High Performance reveals the methods the world's most remarkable athletes, coaches and entrepreneurs use to excel. High performance happens because we put these concepts up on the dashboard of our mind… Our goal is to focus on these more consistently then you ever have before. That’s what moves the needle.” It’s all here. Find the books, hear from authors and discuss content with other like-minded people!

The real reason I gave 5 stars is because Brendon walks you through what you need to do, why you need to do it, and (most importantly) how to actually do it. She explains why it’s not just our talents and abilities that bring us success, the key is in how we approach different parts of life. Carol defines the different approaches as “fixed” and “growth” mindset. This book delves into the techniques we can use to develop a growth mindset and how to combat the constraints of a fixed mindset.How do Olympic medal-winning athletes turbo-charge their motivation? How do multi-millionaire founders develop the habits of champions? And how do Premier League football coaches lead their teams to victory? In general, high performers are learners and their belief that they can learn what is necessary to win in the future gives them as much confidence as their current skill set. Having learned so many things in the past, they trust they can do it again… the internal voice of a high performer is saying ‘I believe in my ability to figure things out’.” Outliers: The Story of Success : Book on the habits and methods higher performers use to achieve extraordinary results So we’d sit, athletes and coaches, and go through chapter by chapter, and just talk about it. It brings up ideas. Like, ‘Okay, that was cool 2,500 years ago, but what about now? How do we apply that now?’ It just begins to open us up to different ways of looking at the very concrete world of sport. What precedes that concrete expression is the invisible world of imagination and thought.

We’ll never know. Because, one way or another, we’ll never bother to ask them. Their life of relentless striving led only to obscurity. A fantastic book that will help you think like an Olympic champion - in mind, body and spirit. DAME KELLY HOLMES I loved this book. It isn't just about how to be a high performer sometimes, but about how to be a high performer all the time - on the pitch, at home and at work. KEVIN SINFIELDFrom taking responsibility for your situation to finding your 'trademark behaviours', thinking flexibly to crafting a high performance culture, Jake Humphrey and Professor Damian Hughes identify the eight crucial steps to becoming the best 'you' possible. There are countless such stories of people who fought against the odds and challenged the possibilities that life gave them. They were no different from you and me. They had the same hot, red blood running through them, the hunger for opportunity and the greed to grow. then, apart from a handy recap, this book will have nothing new for you. If you haven’t encountered these books yet, then this book is probably an excellent place to start. At this point, I admit, my expectations were being met. And then things went from bad to worse. “Taken together, the six habits you’ll learn here won’t just get you to excellence, they’ll make you happier—and the data proves it. The positive emotions of engagement, joy, and confidence that define the high performer’s emotional state can be yours.” Humphrey and Hughes’s popular podcast High Performance works so well because it makes successful people’s methods seem relatable and attainable. The book of the show is more than just excerpts from their best episodes. Instead, it’s one of those confidence-building self-help guides – using insight from guests such as Ant Middleton, Chris Hoy and Kelly Holmes – which focuses the mind on how to be your best, rather than the best. Pop psychology at its most obvious, but Humphrey and Hughes lay out some thought-provoking signposts to a more fruitful 2022. Luster

Just because people want to put things on your plate because you’re good doesn’t mean you should let them.” The HP6, as I was reading the book, did remind me of a variant of cognitive behavioral therapy but that’s not a criticism. It’s a function of the very deliberate nature of the process and practices described. In the end, high performance, as Brendon describes it, is a verb, not an achievement. “Connection [for example] is less about comfort than about challenge.” (I personally think it’s about trust.) And, “…it’s so thoroughly obvious that high performers are generating the feelings they want more often that taking the emotions that land on them.” We—and when I say ‘we,’ I’m talking about my partnership with Coach Carroll, the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks—we’ve found that there are five core pillars in the psychology of excellence. They are: self-discovery, mental skills, psychological framework, recovery and mindfulness. Since beginning my reading of this book, I have tried to implement some of the steps and have already begun to see small differences.In this exclusive episode preview, Gordon shares his advice for up-and-coming chefs facing challenges in their careers, and why finding your weakness is crucial to developing your skills. He debates with Jake the difference between arrogance and confidence. Along the way, they draw on cutting-edge research to explain why these methods work - and how we can all use them. Anyone can learn the secrets of high performance. All of Brendon's 6 habits and 18 practices boil down to this: think about what you're doing before you do it. Wow. Revolutionary.

Early in Indian-American author Kumar’s achingly au courant third novel, his writer-narrator muses from an artists’ retreat that “with the rise of ‘alternative facts’, what did ‘fiction’ even mean?” It’s a question this book grapples with as it navigates Trump, the pandemic and India-Pakistan tensions through the prism of an author battling against fake news. Perhaps deliberately, this makes A Time Outside This Time less successful as a traditional novel with compelling characters and more an involving, long-form literary opinion piece. Kumar’s gamble just about pays off. Whenever something positive happens around me, I say ‘What a gift!’ I do this because so many high performers talk about how they felt a sense of reverence or sacredness in everyday life.” I’m really interested in how this translates to high performance psychology. I assumed that top sportspeople, business leaders and the like need to stay utterly focused on what leads to success—perhaps at the detriment of a work/life balance, and finding purpose through, say, family life.Happier? I am a sexagenarian who has known modest success and far less modest failure. If there is one thing I’ve learned it is that happiness will not give your life meaning or you contentment. Having the world by the tail is not the path to a purposeful life.