Best of: Jeff Spencer: Eight Foundations of Peak Performance
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In one of our best interviews we’ve had, we spoke with Olympic coach Jeff Spencer. After his parents got divorced, Jeff Spencer’s family went on welfare. Then, he lost his father. But through all the darkness of his childhood, Jeff was learning how to use his pain and misfortune to build a stronger future for himself. Listen to how you can unlock the secrets of peak performance and success in this excellent interview!
Jeff Spencer has been at the forefront of human performance and achievement for over 40 years. He’s worked with gold medalists, world champion athletes and Fortune 500 leaders.
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| 0:50.0 | Pain is not really your enemy, you know, pain is in a certain sense your friend, |
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| 1:05.6 | it doesn't mean that you've mastered it. |
| 1:06.8 | Trust me. |
| 1:07.8 | What it really means is that you're living life too much in the safe zone. |
| 1:12.0 | And if you're not out there testing yourself on a regular |
| 1:13.8 | basis and you're not experiencing some level of exertional pain and you're not out there |
| 1:17.6 | scaring yourself a little bit, then there's no way that you know what the edges of your |
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| 1:27.6 | experience tells me that most of that anxiety is the fact that we don't even |
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