64 You are Not a Swiss Watch - Redefining Specificity

Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Humanpotential, Nutrition, Education, Empower, Fitness, Executive, Coach, Strengthtraining, Purplepatch, Sleep, Cycling, Performance, Running, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Ironman, Swimming, Timemanagement, Triathlon, Meditation, Yoga

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

You are not a Swiss watch and your coach is not a watchmaker.

In this episode, Matt redefines specificity to unshackle you from the pretense of precision. In fact, a focus on precision in every session is a slippery slope that leads to obsession, paralysis of analysis, erosion of confidence, and an overreliance on metrics.

You can, however, gain specificity without being precise and if it is done right, it means you don’t have to obsess over every detail to get wonderful and lasting results in sport and life.

Stop searching for daily performance treasures. Don’t become so analytical in every session, look for trends of great behavior, and realize that it’s normal to have a bunch of ordinary and maybe even a few catastrophic days, but hopefully a sprinkle of some pretty darn good ones.

Give yourself permission to realize that precision doesn’t make performance. It’s a healthy dose of consistency, specific training progressed over time…and a whole lot of patience.

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast.
0:03.5	The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential.
0:09.3	Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential.
0:13.3	The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life.
0:19.6	And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever. I am your
0:23.3	host, Matt Dixon. And well, what a week it was. We're going to talk about some results, some human
0:29.1	development in a little moment when we get onto word of the week. But we begin with four words,
0:35.8	four magical words in my lens as a coach. Consistency, progression,
0:42.3	specificity and patience. Those are the four words, four critical words in endurance sports
0:50.3	performance. Today, we're going to just focus on one. Specificity. It's a word that is
0:57.1	misunderstood by coaches and athletes, misapplied, and when misapplied, can lead to obsession,
1:05.0	lack of enjoyment, paralysis and analysis, and a host of other things. Today, specificity.
1:12.8	We redefine it and we make it useful to you
1:16.5	to enable you to find your best route to performance,
1:19.4	whatever your goals are.
1:20.9	But before we do that, let's go to the jingle.
1:23.7	We like the way he thinks,
1:26.5	serious with a wink. Let's open the book. thinks. Serious with a wink.
1:28.2	Let's open the book.
1:30.3	It's time to take a peek.
1:33.0	It's the Dixenary Word of the Week.
1:37.6	Yes, it is Word of the Week once again, and this week the word, shortcuts.
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