Episode 334: Essays on High Performance (Sam Appleton)
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. This new mini-series will reflect on over two decades of coaching top endurance athletes and executives. Join IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon as he’ll draw lessons from these individuals to help you achieve high performance in various aspects of life. These high-performance lessons will be integrated into monthly episodes over the next year.
The first episode focuses on Australian triathlete Sam Appleton, who exemplified the trait of controlling the controllable. Despite a challenging two weeks leading up to the 2018 Ironman 70.3 World Championships, including illness and a nagging Achilles injury, Sam maintained a positive mindset and executed his race strategy. He placed 6th overall, demonstrating the power of focusing on controllable factors for high performance. Dixon emphasizes that this mindset applies beyond sports, improving resilience and reducing anxiety in athletic and professional settings.
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Episode Timestamps:
00:00-3:52 Welcome and Episode Introduction
3:52-14:17 Meat and Potatoes: Background on Sam racing 2018 IRONMAN World Championships in South Africa
14:17-End: Sam's performance during 2018 IRONMAN World Championship Race
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:10.0 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:14.0 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people a great sport into life. |
| 0:33.6 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 0:36.7 | And today it is the first edition. |
| 0:39.1 | Goodness me, that's always exciting, isn't it, folks, the first edition of a new mini-series that allow me to take a little time to do a |
| 0:44.8 | high-performance trait, and that is to reflect. I'm actually going to reflect on more than two |
| 0:50.0 | decades of coaching of some of the world's top endurance athletes in parallel to guiding leading |
| 0:54.9 | executives to sustained high performance in the workplace and of course broader life. |
| 1:00.5 | And so we're going to go back and think about some of those athletes and some of the lessons |
| 1:05.1 | that I drew from these athletes and of course executives to help me foster and improve my coaching. |
| 1:12.8 | So it's going to be the Jesse Thomases, the Sarah Pianpianos, the Zuckerbergs, the Maritzes, |
| 1:18.4 | the various folks that we've worked with over the course of the year that are going to help us |
| 1:23.7 | draw some conclusions of what it takes to achieve high performance in anything that we care |
| 1:30.0 | about. Now, we are titling these the high performance lessons and we plan to integrate one |
| 1:35.9 | of these special editions at about probably about one cadence a month and over the course of |
| 1:41.1 | the next year, we're going to hit about 12 of them. So it should be pretty fun. And it's going to be a lot of storytelling, but also some context behind |
| 1:49.1 | these stories and lessons to try and help us glean some things that are actionable to help |
| 1:54.4 | you show up better in whatever you care about. I think it's going to be both a lot of fun, |
| 1:58.3 | but also hopefully tremendous value too. Today, I'm kicking it off with a be both a lot of fun, but also hopefully tremendous value to. |
| 2:01.6 | Today, I'm kicking it off with a discussion about a Purple Patch professional triathlete |
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