Brad Stulberg

Steve Magness

What Makes Great? A few common principles drive performance, regardless of the field or the task at hand. Whether someone is trying to qualify for the Olympics, break ground in mathematical theory, or craft an artistic masterpiece, many of the practices that lead to great success are the same. In Peak Performance, Brad Stulberg, a former McKinsey and Company consultant and journalist who covers health and the science of human performance, and Steve Magness, a performance scientist and coach of world-class athletes, team up to demystify these practices and demonstrate how everyone can achieve their best. The first book of its kind, Peak Performance combines the inspiring stories of top performers across a range of capabilities—from athletic to intellectual to artistic—with the latest scientific insights into the cognitive and neurochemical factors that drive performance in all domains. In doing so, Peak Performance uncovers new links that hold promise as performance enhancers but that have been overlooked in our traditional ways of thinking. The result is a life-changing book in which you will learn how to enhance your performance by optimally alternating between periods of intense work and rest; priming your body and mind for enhanced productivity; and developing and harnessing the power of a self-transcending purpose. In revealing the science of great performance and the stories of great performers across a wide range of capabilities, Peak Performance uncovers the secrets of success, and coaches you on how to use them. If you want to take your game to the next level, whatever "your game" might be, Peak Performance will teach you how.

Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

Peak Performance

Common advice is to find and follow your passion. A life of passion is a good life, or so we are told. But it's not that simple. The same drive that fuels breakthroughs--whether they're athletic, scientific, entrepreneurial, or artistic--can be every bit as destructive as they are productive. Yes, passion can be a wonderful gift, but only if you know how to use it. If you're not careful, passion can become an awful curse, leading to suffering and burnout. Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness once again team up, this time to demystify passion, showing readers how they can find their passion, sustainably harness its power, and avoid its dangers. They ultimately argue that passion and balance--that other virtue touted by our culture--are incompatible, and that to find your passion, you must lose balance. And they show how to develop the right kind of passion, the kind that lets you achieve great things without ruining your life. Swift, compact, and powerful, this thought-provoking book combines captivating stories of extraordinarily passionate individuals with the latest science on the biological and psychological factors that give rise to passion.

How to Find, Harness, and Get the Most Out of Your Passion

Obsessed

The New Science of Inner Strength and How to Develop It for Extraordinary Success

Real Toughness

"In Do Hard Things, Steve Magness beautifully and persuasively reimagines our understanding of toughness. This is a must-read for parents and coaches and anyone else looking to prepare for life's biggest challenges." -- Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and Talking to Strangers and host of the Revisionist History podcast From beloved performance expert, executive coach, and coauthor of Peak Performance Steve Magness comes a radical rethinking of how we perceive toughness and what it means to achieve our high ambitions in the face of hard things. Toughness has long been held as the key to overcoming a challenge and achieving greatness, whether it is on the sports field, at a boardroom, or at the dining room table. Yet, the prevailing model has promoted a mentality based on fear, false bravado, and hiding any sign of weakness. In other words, the old model of toughness has failed us. Steve Magness, a performance scientist who coaches Olympic athletes, rebuilds our broken model of resilience with one grounded in the latest science and psychology. In Do Hard Things, Magness teaches us how we can work with our body – how experiencing discomfort, leaning in, paying attention, and creating space to take thoughtful action can be the true indications of cultivating inner strength. He offers four core pillars to cultivate such resilience: Pillar 1- Ditch the Façade, Embrace Reality Pillar 2- Listen to Your Body Pillar 3- Respond, Instead of React Pillar 4- Transcend Discomfort Smart and wise all at once, Magness flips the script on what it means to be resilient. Drawing from mindfulness, military case studies, sports psychology, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, he provides a roadmap for navigating life’s challenges and achieving high performance that makes us happier, more successful, and, ultimately, better people.

Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

Do Hard Things

Reviews of The Science of Running: The Science of Running sets the new standard for training theory and physiological data. Every veteran and beginner distance coach needs to have this on their book shelf. -Alan Webb American Record Holder-Mile 3:46.91 For anyone serious about running, The Science of Running offers the latest information and research for optimizing not only your understanding of training but also your performance. If you want to delve deeper into the world of running and training, this book is for you. You will never look at running the same. -Jackie Areson, 15th at the 2013 World Championships in the 5k. 15:12 5,000m best If you are looking for how to finish your first 5k, this book isn't for you. The Science of Running is written for those of us looking to maximize our performance, get as close to our limits as possible, and more than anything find out how good we can be, or how good our athletes can be. In The Science of Running, elite coach and exercise physiologist Steve Magness integrates the latest research with the training processes of the world's best runners, to deliver an in depth look at how to maximize your performance. It is a unique book that conquers both the scientific and practical points of running in two different sections. The first is aimed at identifying what limits running performance from a scientific standpoint. You will take a tour through the inside of the body, learning what causes fatigue, how we produce energy to run, and how the brain functions to hold you back from super-human performance. In section two, we turn to the practical application of this information and focus on the process of training to achieve your goals. You will learn how to develop training plans and to look at training in a completely different way. The Science of Running does not hold back information and is sure to challenge you to become a better athlete, coach, or exercise scientist in covering such topics as: . What is fatigue? The latest research on looking at fatigue from a brain centered view. . Why VO2max is the most overrated and misunderstood concept in both the lab and on the track . Why zone training leads to suboptimal performance. . How to properly individualize training for your own unique physiology. . How to look at the training process in a unique way in terms of stimulus and adaptation. . Full sample training programs from 800m to the marathon.

How to Find Your Limit and Train to Maximize Your Performance

The Science of Running

Es gibt eine Handvoll Prinzipien die Bestleistung ermöglichen, egal in welcher Disziplin. Brad Stulberg, ehemaliger McKinsey-Berater, und Steve Magness, Trainer olympischer Athleten, haben das Phänomen Spitzenleistung und das dazugehörige Mindset erstmals wissenschaftlich untersucht. Das Ergebnis: Es spielt keine Rolle, in welchem Bereich man zu Höchstformen auflaufen will – mit dem perfekten Mindset jeder kann für sich eine Strategie finden, die unabhängig vom gesteckten Ziel funktioniert und sich bei der beruflichen Karriere, sportlichen Wettkämpfen und kreativen Prozessen, ja sogar im Privatleben anwenden lässt. Das perfekte Mindset kombiniert inspirierende Geschichten von Top-Performern aus Sport, Forschung und Kunst mit den neuesten Erkenntnissen der Neurowissenschaften – ein lebensveränderndes Strategiebuch, das alle Geheimnisse des Wegs zum Erfolg offen legt. - Wie jeder physisch und mental in allen Bereichen des Lebens mit dem optimalen Mindset Höchstleistung vollbringen und Burn-out vermeiden kann - Eine einzigartige Kombination aus inspirierenden Geschichten von Top-Performern aus Sport, Forschung und Kunst und den neuesten Erkenntnissen der Neurowissenschaften

Absolute Spitzenleistung mit den neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen erreichen

Das perfekte Mindset – Peak Performance

˜Dasœ perfekte Mindset

Vivimos en la era de la competitividad extrema, por lo que somos muchos los que deseamos saber cómo podemos mejorar nuestro rendimiento de manera eficaz y sin que nuestra salud resulte perjudicada. Las fórmulas que han reportado mayores éxitos a los expertos Steve Magness, entrenador deportivo de élite, y Brad Stulberg, experto en salud y consultor financiero, son tan sorprendentes como fáciles de llevar a la práctica: pasar un rato en compañía de los amigos, alternar periodos de trabajo intenso con etapas de descanso, crear ambientes distendidos, priorizar tareas, minimizar las distracciones o preparar adecuadamente el cuerpo y la mente para hacer frente a los desafíos que nos preocupan. Con inspiradores ejemplos de personalidades destacadas del mundo del deporte, las artes y los negocios, así como los últimos descubrimientos científicos sobre los factores cognitivos y bioquímicos que impulsan y mejoran la productividad, Máximo rendimiento nos revela los métodos más prometedores, éticos y revolucionarios para poder dar lo mejor de nosotros mismos, sea cual sea nuestro campo de interés.

Sube de nivel, evita el agotamiento y prospera con la nueva ciencia del éxito

Máximo rendimiento

The coauthors of the bestselling Peak Performance dive into the fascinating science behind passion, showing how it can lead to a rich and meaningful life while also illuminating the ways in which it is a double-edged sword. Here’s how to cultivate a passion that will take you to great heights—while minimizing the risk of an equally great fall. Common advice is to find and follow your passion. A life of passion is a good life, or so we are told. But it's not that simple. Rarely is passion something that you just stumble upon, and the same drive that fuels breakthroughs—whether they're athletic, scientific, entrepreneurial, or artistic—can be every bit as destructive as it is productive. Yes, passion can be a wonderful gift, but only if you know how to channel it. If you're not careful, passion can become an awful curse, leading to endless seeking, suffering, and burnout. Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness once again team up, this time to demystify passion, showing readers how they can find and cultivate their passion, sustainably harness its power, and avoid its dangers. They ultimately argue that passion and balance--that other virtue touted by our culture--are incompatible, and that to find your passion, you must lose balance. And that's not always a bad thing. They show readers how to develop the right kind of passion, the kind that lets you achieve great things without ruining your life. Swift, compact, and powerful, this thought-provoking book combines captivating stories of extraordinarily passionate individuals with the latest science on the biological and psychological factors that give rise to—and every bit as important, sustain—passion.

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