Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness || Peak Performance

The Psychology Podcast

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Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week I’m excited to welcome Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness to The Psychology Podcast. Brad writes for Outside, Runner’s World, NPR and has a column in the Huffington Post about health and the science of human performance. Steve Magness coaches Olympians and marathoners, lectures at St. Mary’s University on Exercise Science, and writes for numerous publications including Wired, Sports Illustrated and NY Magazine on the science of performance. Together they are partners in peak performance, in research, and in writing their latest book Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success. In this conversation, Brad and Steve teach us: Why the word “performance” can be deceiving and how those of us focused on creative endeavors, who may not think of “performance” as an end goal, can benefit from their research, Why both physical and cognitive rest are crucial for world-class performance in our pursuits, in what’s known as the Paradox of Rest (some of you probably know how much I love a good paradox!), How harmonious passion maps onto their ideas about burnout, and how to identify whether a pursuit is rooted in harmonious or obsessive passion, Why Brad and Steve limit themselves to 24-48 hours of celebration or wallowing after identity-validating or identity-challenging events, How to optimize our routines to achieve peak performance, Why transcendence is one of the most underrated characteristics of peak performance. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity.
0:07.0	Each episode will feature a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.
0:14.4	Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.
0:17.5	Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. Next. But right now I'm really excited to introduce my guest for today, the writer Brad Stolberg and the high performance coach Steve
0:44.6	Magnus, who are authors of the new book, Peak Performance, Elevate your game,
0:49.1	avoid burnout, and thrive with the new science of success.
0:53.0	Thanks for chatting with me today guys.
0:55.0	Thanks so much for having us.
0:57.0	Yeah, thanks for your patience.
0:58.0	We have been so backed up on the podcast, but I'm excited to finally get a chance to talk to you guys.
1:02.9	Your book has been out now for how long?
1:05.8	You guys are thinking about that.
1:07.1	Yeah, so three months about, um, ten and, I think it launched in June, so, yeah, three months.
1:15.0	And how you guys feeling about it?
1:16.3	Like, are you happy with the responses you've received?
1:19.8	What are your thoughts on it?
1:20.8	It's a big deal putting a book out in the world, I know.
1:23.2	Yeah, for sure. You know, we're trying to practice what we preach, which is to focus on the things that we could
1:28.9	control and not spend too much time worrying about the things that we can't. And I keep on telling myself that is a
1:35.2	mantra, but man, it's hard to practice what you preach. Like the first day the book came out,
1:39.7	Steve and I were on the East Coast doing book tour stuff, and we both said that we're going to go for a run the
1:45.8	morning that the book launched and not bring our phones and not check notifications.
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