Here's how you can become excellent at what matters most

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Plenty of people are born with natural talent for anything from sports to writing to organizational skills. But what if you could learn excellence at anything? Eric Potterat spent years helping Navy SEALs and professional athletes perform at a higher level, and with help from author and ex-Google exec Alan Eagle they wrote “Learned Excellence: Mental Disciplines for Leading and Winning from the World's Top Performers.” In this episode, Eric and Alan identify how we perform every day of our lives and illustrate how we can adopt the methods used by top performers to improve any skill. Follow Eric and Alan on LinkedIn and check out their book here. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir, now in paperback. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. To continue the conversation this week and every week, join our free LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:00.0	LinkedIn News.
0:06.0	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemple and this is Hello Monday.
0:10.0	It's our show about the changing nature of work and how it's changing us.
0:16.7	And yes, you can still hear that cold I have.
0:20.4	I really hope that by next week it'll be gone.
0:24.1	Anyhow bear with me because here we go.
0:25.8	As a commander in the US Navy,
0:30.8	Eric Potterat spent 10 years as head psychologist for the U.S. Navy SEALs.
0:36.6	Now, I know you have probably heard of the Navy SEALs, but if they're new to you, here's
0:41.6	what they're about.
0:42.8	They are the most elite members of our armed forces.
0:46.2	People who work in small groups to carry out
0:48.6	the most high-stakes operations our military conducts.
0:53.0	When the United States finally took down Osama bin Laden,
0:56.9	well that was the SEALs team.
0:59.1	The SEALs are fit, both physically and mentally. They must perform without fail in very high pressure
1:06.4	situations every time. Eric's job was to help them train mentally and to support them through their hardest moments.
1:15.0	After he retired from the military, Eric brought that same know-how to his next job,
1:21.0	as a psychologist for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Now these
1:25.3	athletes were working in stressful environments too. The stakes were high
1:29.7	albeit very different and that was this big aha for Eric.
1:35.0	I just had this epiphany, regardless of the disciplines
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