If you want to improve your life, you must first improve your performance.
The question is, according to Brad and Steve, ‘Is healthy, sustainable peak performance possible? If so, how? What’s the secret? What, if any, are the principles underlying great performance? How can people like us- which is to say, just about anyone-adopt them?’
‘The brightest minds spend their time either pursuing their activity with ferocious intensity, or engaging in complete restoration and recovery.’
What are you doing to get better? If you are doing something, then ask yourself, ‘Is it the right thing for this moment?
‘It isn’t experience that sets top performers apart but the amount of deliberate practice they put in. Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.’
Be intentional about your practice. If your practice is not right, do not expect to get better.
‘The way we think about the world has a profound effect on what we do in it.’
‘By pushing us toward just- manageable challenges and enhancing how we’ll respond to them, the right mindset opens up the possibility for growth to occur.’
Growth happens when you open up your mind to receive it. Because you will never receive what you are not expecting.
‘If we never take ‘easy’ periods, we are never able to go full throttle and the ‘hard’ periods end up being not that hard at all.’
‘Hard work only becomes smart and sustainable work when it’s supported by rest.’
‘It is hard to do your best thinking when your mind isn’t at peace.’
‘The things we work amidst become expansions of the self, things the mind can use to create harmony in experience.’
‘Is healthy, sustainable peak performance possible?
Source:
Brad Stulberg & Steve Magness (2017). Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with The New Science of Success
