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Good Life Project

Todd Herman: What Really Drives Elite Performance?

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Living Well, Midlife, Education, Health & Fitness, Wellness, Self-improvement, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, How To

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2016

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

How did a kid who grew up on a farm in Alberta, Canada end up an elite performance coach to Olympic athletes and CEOs?

This is the story of today's guest, performance savant and founder The 90 Day Year, Todd Herman.

Did Todd get an advanced degree? Nope. Did he write a bestselling book? Again, no. Was he hyper-connected to high-level gatekeepers and influencers? Not unless you consider horses and other farm animals to be conduits to greatness.

Then how did he end up the go-to person at the highest levels of sport and business? The answer lies in the same relentless drive that let him launch a packed consulting practice from a cold start by talking his way into speaking 68 times in 90 days.

Todd is one of the most focused and productive people we've ever met. He honed his skills over nearly two decades working with many of the top performing athletes in the world, before making a pretty radical shift to online education with the creation of his accelerated productivity training, The 90 Day Year.

In this week's conversation, we dive into his upbringing on a ranch in the middle of Canada, with thousands of acres to roam. We explore his jones to leave the ranch at a very early age and his more recent awakening to an unshakeable connection with the land. We talk about his lens on performance and deconstruct that whole 68 talks in 90 days strategy. We also talk about the interplay between elite performance, happiness, preparation and fulfillment.

For anyone who has wondered about closing the gap between reality and potential, this is a don't miss an episode!


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0:00.0

Hey there, it's Jonathan.

0:04.4

So are you as much of an audiobook junkie as I am?

0:08.6

Because I've started to listen to them an awful lot.

0:11.1

It's this amazing way for me to go deep and to learn a whole bunch of stuff and also just

0:15.8

to have fun when I'm kind of between places.

0:19.8

So I love podcasts and I start to listen to audiobooks a lot more.

0:23.8

So I wanted to let you know if you like that, that my new book, How To Live A Good Life

0:29.4

is actually available now as an audiobook.

0:34.0

You can grab it wherever audiobooks are sold, audible, Amazon, iTunes, all the normal

0:39.6

places.

0:41.2

And I also narrated that.

0:42.7

So if you're cool with my voice on the podcast, then hopefully you would enjoy that narrating

0:48.8

a book as well.

0:50.4

So if that sounds interesting to you, go check it out.

0:53.3

I hope you will find it super valuable and now turning it over to the rest of our show.

1:02.8

I'm here for a specific reason and that's to help you get better results, period.

1:06.5

And it's not going to be comfortable because a whole point of getting new results in life

1:10.5

means you're going to be pushing into new zones where you've never been before.

1:14.0

So I'm here to push you and I'll give you the tools along the way, but it's not going

1:18.1

to be easy.

1:20.1

Hey there, it's Jonathan back with a conversation on Good Life Project.

1:27.0

So I've wanted to sit down with today's guest for some time now.

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