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052 - The Coach Up: How to (Deep) Read More Books
Reading is a skill that we may not spend a lot of time trying to improve. But in an age of constant noise and distraction, being able to focus and go deep on a good book isn't just one of life's grea…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
051 - Does Being a Good Person Make You a Worse Competitor?
Steve, Brad, and Clay discuss a question posed by the writer and runner Sabrina Little in a recent article (link below) from Aeon titled "Performance-Enhancing Vices:" How do the personality traits t…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
050 - The Coach Up: The Visual Tool to Win Hard Workouts (or Days)
We all have hard workouts and hard days. Often, what makes them hard is there's a problem we need to solve. On today's episode, we're going into the FAREWELL archives to pull one of the great problem…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
049 - Diet, Exercise, and Performance Dos and Don'ts with Adam Bornstein
Adam Bornstein is a fitness and nutrition expert who has worked with LeBron James and Arnold Schwarzenegger and who came to the world of wellness after breaking his back (twice!) at a young age. It w…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
048 - The Coach Up: JJ Redick on the Confidence of an NBA Sharpshooter
Over the course of his basketball career, JJ Redick carved out a reputation as one of the game's best shooters. (Not to mention one of its smartest minds, which is why he's currently an analyst for t…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
047 - How to think About Longevity and End-of-Life Health
In recent years, there has been a growing obsession with longevity and life extension: people interested in improving the quality of their health at the end of their lives (or extending their life al…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
046 - The Coach Up: How (and Why) To Do A Digital Sabbath
Every week, Brad Stulberg spends either Saturday or Sunday practicing a Digital Sabbath: he goes the day offline and without any of his devices (phone, computer, tablet). It's not because he's anti-t…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
045 - The Reason You Can’t Ever Get Through Your To-Do List (with Oliver Burkeman)
There’s a promise built into all the productivity and time management advice out there: that it’s possible, with the most efficient technique, to finally conquer that feeling that you have too much t…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
044 - The Coach Up: Beginner's Mind and the Power of Pessimism
Rebecca Rusch is an athlete whose feats of endurance have included two self-supported, 350-mile bike rides on the Iditarod Trail and led a magazine to once dub her the "Queen of Pain." On today's epi…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
043 - Lessons from a 10-Day Silent Meditation Retreat
Clay discusses his recent experience at a 10-day silent retreat, and the guys use it as a chance to go deep on the relationship between meditation and performance—including how Brad and Steve have ch…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago