1: Together, heart disease and cancer account for almost half of all American deaths.
There is a difference, however, between these two killers.
“We understand,” Peter Attia writes in his terrific book Outlive, “the genesis and progression of heart disease fairly well, and we have some effective tools with which to prevent and treat it.
“As a result, mortality rates from cardiovascular disease and cerebrovascular disease have dropped by … continue reading
1: We feel good. We’ve just finished making our sales presentation. We spent hours preparing. And we nailed it. Our audience now knows all the powerful and wonderful things our product and service can do.
The first question we get? Something negative: “What about . . . ?”
“If the first question someone asks is about a potential issue they need us to clarify, it means they’ve been thinking about … continue reading
1: How do we “develop a real plan for a better life?”
Trent Hamm tells us we start by selecting the areas of our lives on which we want to focus (Step One), outline where we are currently in each area (Step Two), where we want to be in five or ten years (Step Three) and brainstorm five to fifteen possible actions or projects that would … continue reading
This week, we are exploring a goal-setting methodology from Trent Hamm called “Developing a Real Plan for a Better Life.”
Yesterday, we looked at STEP ONE: Selecting the areas of our lives we want to focus on.
Today, we turn to steps two, three, and four.
STEP TWO begins with blocking off some quiet time to do the necessary work.
“While it’s great to give this process some off-the-cuff … continue reading
1: That’s the opportunity.
How?
First, set powerful 2024 goals.
Next, achieve those goals through a simple process designed to optimize follow-through.
Over the past five years, I’ve utilized a goal-setting methodology from Trent Hamm titled: “Developing a Real Plan for a Better Life.” Implementing Trent’s framework has resulted in the following:
*The decision to get married!
*Transforming our business at PCI through the launch of the Oral History Project. … continue reading
1: If we are hunting high achievement (and we are), “motivation is what gets you into the game, but learning is what keeps you there,” Steven Kotler writes in The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer.
Steven cites psychologist Gary Klein’s classic book on decision-making, Sources of Power, which identifies eight specific types of knowledge “that are visible to experts yet invisible to everyone else.”
o Patterns that
1: “My best friend, Michael Wharton, ran track in high school,” Steven Kotler writes in The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer.
Michael’s coach had unusual protocols. “When they went out for long runs, whenever they encountered a hill, the team had to shift their focus entirely to core running skills: long strides, strong arms, high kicks. Note the focus wasn’t on speed or acceleration, it was on … continue reading
1: The default mode for peak performers is not recovery, rest, and relaxation.
“If momentum matters most, sitting still feels like laziness,” Steven Kotler writes in The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer. “And the more aligned with passion and purpose we become, the more ‘wasteful’ time off starts to feel.”
Yet, we need to prioritize recovery to avoid burnout.
“Burnout is identified by three symptoms: exhaustion, depression, … continue reading
1: The answer, according to one of the world’s leading experts on human performance?
Learning to be at our best when we are at our worst.
“And you have to train this kind of grit on its own, as a separate skill, But if we can do this, what we discover is real power. There’s real power there—and it’s power we probably didn’t know we had.” Steven Kotler writes in … continue reading
1: “Early-stage passion doesn’t look like late-stage passion,” Steven Kotler writes in The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer.
Imagine LeBron James as “a little kid standing in front of a big hoop, trying to get his shots to drop,” Steven writes. “On the front end, passion is nothing more than the overlap of multiple curiosities coupled to a few wins.”
Sure, to be passionate, we want to … continue reading
