isbn-13: 9781623367930
Audible
Some interesting insights into performance. Nothing earth-shattering though.
- The secret to sustainable success is balancing stress and rest.
- Stress can stimulate growth and adaptation, but a positive mindset is key.
- Multitasking is inefficient and it’s best to focus on one task at a time.
- Rest is important for peak performance, but not all types of rest are equal.
- e.g. walking outdoors promotes creativity
- Great performers abide by a few simple tricks
- having a solid routine is key
- setting the right priorities is important
- maintain a positive outlook
- Having a purpose can help you transcend self-imposed limitations.
- Help yourself by helping others
Main Ideas / Themes:
- Stress + rest = growth
- Focus and removing distractions
- Chunking your work
- Nurture a growth or challenge mindset
- Force yourself to rest, prioritizing sleep
- Power of meditation
- Take a break and allow your subconscious mind to work and pass on creativity
- Prime for performance
- Optimize your routine
- Mood impacts performance
- Creating an ideal environment for performance
- Conditioning/priming yourself to perform
- Linking key behaviors to specific cues
- Consistency is key
- Purposefully design your day
- Become a minimalist to become a maximalist
- Match activities to energy levels based on chrono type (lark vs owl)
- Surround yourself wisely
- There is no replacement for showing up
- Harness the power of purpose and transcend yourself
- Enhance your motivation using your purpose
- Give back to avoid burnout
- Develop and harness your purpose
Publisher’s Description: “What Makes Great? A few common principles drive performance, regardless of the field or the task at hand. Whether someone is trying to qualify for the Olympics, break ground in mathematical theory, or craft an artistic masterpiece, many of the practices that lead to great success are the same. In Peak Performance, Brad Stulberg, a former McKinsey and Company consultant and journalist who covers health and the science of human performance, and Steve Magness, a performance scientist and coach of world- class athletes, team up to demystify these practices and demonstrate how everyone can achieve their best. The first book of its kind, Peak Performance combines the inspiring stories of top performers across a range of capabilities—from athletic to intellectual to artistic—with the latest scientific insights into the cognitive and neurochemical factors that drive performance in all domains. In doing so, Peak Performance uncovers new links that hold promise as performance enhancers but that have been overlooked in our traditional ways of thinking. The result is a life- changing book in which you will learn how to enhance your performance by optimally alternating between periods of intense work and rest; priming your body and mind for enhanced productivity; and developing and harnessing the power of a self-transcending purpose. In revealing the science of great performance and the stories of great performers across a wide range of capabilities, Peak Performance uncovers the secrets of success, and coaches you on how to use them. If you want to take your game to the next level, whatever”your game” might be, Peak Performance will teach you how.”