S2E62 High Performance Unpacked
The Brian Buffini Show
Brian Buffini
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Mark Verstegen is one of the top performance coaches in the world. In this episode, Brian reflects on what Mark taught him about becoming great in work, in sport and in life.
YOU WILL LEARN:
- The 4 pillars of top performance.
- The changes Brian has recently made to his nutrition and wellness.
- The importance of continuous improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
S2E61 Higher Performance - an Interview with Mark Verstegen
S2E55, Breaking the Ice - an Interview with Wim Hof
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“In order of priority of what you needed to work on, the very first thing was the mindset.” – Brian Buffini
“Everybody has a set of particular gifts they've been given, unique to them. And then everybody has a specific calling on their life for a particular purpose.” – Brian Buffini
“Have a game plan for using your gifts and talents.” – Brian Buffini
“There's no improvement that's too small. Any kind of improvement that's continuous ultimately leads to massive improvements.” – Brian Buffini
“Nothing tastes as good as feeling good.” – Brian Buffini
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life Podcast where we're all about helping entrepreneurs think |
| 0:06.6 | feel and do better. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm David Lallie, producer of The Good Life and I'm very happy to be here with you guys |
| 0:12.3 | today. |
| 0:13.3 | We had a fascinating interview two days ago with Mark Verstagen. |
| 0:16.8 | He's one of the top performance coaches in the world. |
| 0:19.9 | He's worked with Kremdell Akram from the German National Socrates to over 1200 NFL players |
| 0:26.4 | in bringing out their potential. |
| 0:28.8 | I found it pretty interesting from all of that work. |
| 0:31.8 | His number one application is actually in the corporate world. |
| 0:35.4 | He covered four major points, mindset, nutrition, movement and recovery. |
| 0:41.4 | What impacted you most on his take on mindset, Brian? |
| 0:45.2 | This is very close to home for me, David, as you well know, I've really upped my efforts |
| 0:50.4 | in this area in the last six months or so. |
| 0:53.2 | And it was interesting as I started thinking about mindset, right? |
| 0:55.8 | So when we started the podcast six years ago, you remember well, we called it the Brian |
| 1:00.6 | Bavini show and it was mindset, motivation and methodologies of success. |
| 1:04.7 | So, you know, the mindset comes first. |
| 1:07.4 | And I found it interesting that in his first take in order of priority of what you needed |
| 1:12.5 | to work on, the very first thing was the mindset. |
| 1:16.0 | And you know, he talked about this thing called helping people find their superpower. |
| 1:21.1 | And look, we grow up in this area. |
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