Hey there, I'm Jack Cumpfrey. Welcome once again to High Performance. This is our gift to you for free every single week.

This is the podcast that reminds you that it's within your ambition, your purpose, your story.

It's within. We just hope you unlock it by turning the lived experiences of the planet's highest performers into your life lessons.

So right now, allow myself and my awesome co-host Professor Damien Hughes to speak to the greatest leaders, think as sports stars and entrepreneurs on the planet so they can be your teacher.

And we always say at the beginning of these episodes that this is about us taking other people's life lessons and passing them on to you.

Well, we're joined on this episode by a guest who has spent his life surrounded by elite sporting royalty.

But this isn't a conversation about sport. This podcast is not even really a conversation about high achievement or high success.

This actually is a conversation about high happiness. I want you to finish this episode today and I want yourself worth to be higher.

Today, this is what you're going to hear on the High Performance Podcast.

I learned one of the most powerful lessons that I've ever learned in my life when I watched Kobe Bryant do a really early morning workout. And that is the best never get bored with the basics.

We happen to live in a world and it doesn't matter where on the globe you live, but society unconsciously tells us that it's okay to skip steps.

Tells us we should always be looking for a shortcut or a hack and tells us we should constantly be chasing an in pursuit of what's new and what shiny and what's flashy.

And I'm a believer that doing those things is taking a step in the wrong direction and that is because the basics work.

You need to consistently show up in every area of your life. You know, the highest performers that I've been around, they didn't pick and choose when to be excellent or when to meet their standards.

They did it in everything. You know what one of the things I love about Alan Allen, Stan Jr. who's the guy you're going to hear from today is his energy. Now you might not have heard of this guy, but he has spent his life working with the best.

And that's like that's cool in itself, right? You know, he's basically spent his life around NBA stars. So we're talking about the likes of Kevin Durant, Steph Curry and Kobe Bryant.

And it's all very well spending time with those people, but when you have a real value to others, it's the ability to translate what you've learned from those people and talk about it in simple plane, inspiring language.

And that's exactly what Alan does. I mean, he is a master storyteller. He's an author. You can find his books. In fact, we've put a link in the description to this podcast. So you can get hold of his books.

He's a keynote speaker, but the biggest thing with Alan is that he translates sport to life. And I know that whether you love or hate sport, whether you understand or don't understand NBA, you just got to stick with this for the next hour or so.

And you will leave it a better person. That's my promise to you. So please enjoy the energy. Enjoy the conversation and enjoy this episode of the high performance podcast with sports coach and all round inspiring author and speaker.

Alan Stein, Jr.

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