Benchmark: The 5 P’s of Decision Making, Higher-Level Thinking, Choice Reduction, & More
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, first published in November of 2019, we take a 10'000 foot view of how to make better decisions, discussing how to factor in our principles, priorities, & purpose to make sure our lives are headed in the right direction.
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📍 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain. Find him on Instagram.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence. My name is Patrick Cummings, |
| 0:06.5 | I'm the reaker on the show, Ben and I dedicate some time to exploring how we can live a life |
| 0:10.9 | of better health and increase fulfillment. We answer your questions about the five |
| 0:14.6 | factors of health that I've deep on living a life of excellence and explore the strategies |
| 0:19.0 | and frameworks to help us chase what truly matters. Thank you so much for tuning into |
| 0:24.0 | the show this week. I am here all by myself for this introduction as we have been doing |
| 0:30.0 | throughout the month of July. Ben and I are taking a little bit of a breather as we enjoy |
| 0:34.9 | this summer, as we enjoy our summer vacations and as we prepare at least in one of our |
| 0:40.4 | cases to head out to the CrossFit Games. We are bringing you some episodes from the archive. |
| 0:47.6 | We call these episodes benchmarks. These are ideas and frameworks and conversations that we feel |
| 0:54.2 | are seminal to the overall ideas inside of Chasing Excellence and they are the episodes and ideas |
| 1:01.1 | that folks still reach out to tell us that they listen to even though it has been years since we first |
| 1:08.7 | published them. This week we have a conversation from November of 2019 all about the five |
| 1:16.1 | piece of decision making before we get into that episode as I've been doing with these benchmarks. |
| 1:23.6 | Begging of you, not really begging, I'm asking you if you are so interested in getting a question |
| 1:28.4 | into a future episode. Find me on Instagram, send me a DM, my handle is at PS Cummings, |
| 1:35.3 | drop me a message, I promise you I will see them, I will do my best to respond to it and I will get |
| 1:40.6 | it into our queue and into a future episode. Thank you in advance for everybody who's been sending |
| 1:47.8 | your questions. They will ensure we have some fantastic episodes as we get through the summer |
| 1:54.4 | and back into the full swing of things before we get into this week's episode. A few words from |
| 2:02.8 | our sponsors. Are you looking for a tasty and healthy way to replenish your electrolytes? |
| 2:08.5 | Well look no further than element. Head to drinkelement.com slash excellence to learn more about the |
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