Olympian, Jon Edwards, on the 3 Secrets To High Performance – Part 1
Jon Edwards is an Olympian, a business owner, a blogger, a husband and a dad to two beautiful children. Jon has been on ESPN Sports Illustrated details magazine CBS and NBC and today he’s going to talk to us about how you can take the techniques Olympians use to make your life and your business better to increase your productivity and dramatically improve your performance.Books Mentioned:
- Faster, Higher, Stronger: How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes–And What We Can Learn from Them by Mark McClusky
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
- The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
- Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition
Key points (with timestamps)
- 2:25 – Brief overview of Jon’s journey as Olympian and Entrepreneur
- 8:52 – Three key abilities
- 10:35 – The fourth key
- 11:35 – How physical capabilities apply to an online business environment
- 16:00 – Jon’s story about Dvorjak keyboard
- 19:23 – A story about learning new skills
- 24:10 – Jon’s take on the importance of sleep
- 26:53 – Managing activities and resources, and staying focused
- 32:20 – The importance of feedback
- 40:50 – Lifestyle Creep
- 41:58 – Talking about high-performance
- 44:15 – “The majority of the workforce is operating in a fatigue state.”
- 44:52 – Learning how to visualize the things you want to accomplish
- 46:26 – Mindfulness as meditation in action
- 48:50 – Cultural and Educational Entrenching
