Episode 329: Child's Play - Applying Lessons from Kids to Achieve High-Performance
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another episode of the Purple Patch podcast.
This week, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon explores the concept of Child’s play. What do children have to do with our pursuit of high performance in work, life, and sport? It turns out, quite a bit.
While it may sometimes seem like kids do nothing but go to school, say the wildest things, and create messes around the house, the study of child development holds valuable lessons. Understanding how children grow into high-functioning adults can parallel the importance of sports and physical challenges in our own lives. These experiences can help us perform better under pressure in all aspects of life.
Today's discussion about high performance will draw inspiration from the playful and physical activities of children that many of us remember from our childhoods. The aim is to rejuvenate your spirit of adventure and inspire you to either rediscover the joy in your current pursuits or take on an entirely new challenge.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 02:49 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
02:56 - 14:41 - The Meat and Potatoes: Part 1 - Free Play for Kids
14:42 - 27:16 - Part 2 - The Importance of Experience
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:12.0 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:16.0 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life. |
| 0:31.8 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 0:37.1 | And today we are going to go to the very |
| 0:40.0 | pinnacle of high performance. I'm going to talk about kids. Children, what can they teach us |
| 0:49.1 | about developing sustained high performance? Is that a serious question you might ask me? |
| 0:57.0 | They do nothing. |
| 0:59.0 | They go to school, they forget to brush their teeth, they leave their clothes drawn all over |
| 1:04.0 | their bedrooms, and they play. |
| 1:07.0 | Well, it turns out they can teach us quite a lot. At least the study of child development can. |
| 1:14.8 | How children develop into high-functional adults actually has massive parallels with understanding |
| 1:21.0 | the importance of the value of sport in our lives and how we are able to leverage sport, |
| 1:27.2 | or at least personal physical challenges, |
| 1:29.3 | to help us show up better, to perform under pressure across all aspects of life. |
| 1:34.3 | And so this today is about your high performance, |
| 1:38.3 | but it's going to be born out of kids running around in a playground, falling out of trees, all of that good stuff. |
| 1:45.6 | And most of us can remember that from our childhoods. |
| 1:48.4 | It's all in the meat of potatoes. |
| 1:50.6 | But first, before we get going, I do want to just remind you of one thing. |
| 1:55.2 | We're bringing you this show today at free. |
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