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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

The 8 Foundations of Peak Performance with Jeff Spencer

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, we speak with Olympic coach Jeff Spencer about the secrets of peak performance and success


Highlights:

  • Why will and talent aren’t enough for success
  • How mentors can alter our paths in lives 
  • The reason we shouldn’t fight battles in isolation 
  • The 3 key people that you need on your team 
  • Lessons from being olympic cyclist 
  • Testing your limits responsibly 
  • 8 foundation for peak performance 



Quotes

When we regularly engage in pursuits that we’re passionate about we serve others 

 

Jeff Spencer has been at the forefront of human performance and achivement for over 40 years. He's worked with gold medalists, world champion athletes and Fortune 500 leaders.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

pain is not really your enemy, you know? Pain is in a certain sense your friend, kind of like

0:05.8

fear is, you know? If you don't have periodic pain in your life, you don't have periodic fear

0:12.4

in your life, it doesn't mean that you've mastered it.

0:14.1

Trust me, what it really means is that you're living life too much in the safe zone.

0:18.2

And if you're not out there testing yourself on a regular basis and you're not experiencing some level of

0:23.5

exertional pain and you're not out there scaring yourself a little bit then there's no

0:27.4

way that you know what the edges of your boxes really are I mean let's be

0:30.5

honest about it every one of us has got a certain level of anxiety about life,

0:33.7

but you know, my experience tells me that most of that anxiety is the fact that we don't even know where

0:37.8

we are because we're not testing ourselves at the limit. Summit. of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving

0:54.0

businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art.

0:58.0

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