So if you want to learn a new skill, if you want to improve your craft, you have to engage in stressful learning.

You got to literally have this feeling of anxiety. That's helpful. But then you have to back it up with sleep and rest. If you don't, good

look. That to me is being a high performer. It's speeding up this learning curve. Oh, Welcome to the future podcast, a show that explores the interesting overlap between

creativity, business, and personal development.

I'm Greg Gunn.

When you hear the term high performance,

you probably think about professional athletes.

People go through intense physical and mental training to prepare their mind and body for the big game.

And not to sound like a meme, but what if I told you that you could borrow similar training techniques to improve your creative performance.

Sounds interesting, right?

Well, according to our guest in this episode, there are a lot of parallels between creatives and athletes, high stress, long hours, and intense mental focus.

And although he comes from a sports science background, having coached professional NFL players and Olympic athletes, the concepts translate.

Eat well, rest well, and take care of yourself.

In this episode, our guest offers tips for how you can become more adaptable,

why rest is critical to your success, and how your brain and body play an important role in creativity.

High performance creative. play an important role in creativity,

high performance creative.

I like how that sounds.

Please enjoy our conversation with Eric Corum.

So Eric is a pleasure to talk to you today. For people who don't know who you are can you introduce yourself please?

Yes, thank you Chris for having me on. I'm very excited to be here. Yeah, so I've spent the past 15 years working in high performance sport as a sport scientist and a high performance director

which means that I've overseen the physical and psychological and what we call the technical and

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