Eric Potterat

Yeah, it's a great question.

I mean, I think that that's what I've spent 30 years looking at.

I mean, literally 25,000 encounters with the best performers in the world.

And after time, after about 10 to 12 years of working with these people, it became clear as day to me.

that generally the best performers are doing roughly the same things, plus or minus.

So we've been able to kind of consolidate what those are and they kind of fall under bins of adversity tolerance tactics and everything from goal setting, visualization, self-talk, breathing, compartmentalization.

So there's a number of, I think, lessons and tools and tactics that we can reverse engineer to the general public, if you will.

You know, I think first and foremost, I think one of the easiest things to do is to really talk about mindset.

I think that's when you look at the best performers on earth, they are leveraging, catalyzing and optimizing a certain mindset for the role that they're playing.

And I think my takeaway message to you would be just keep in mind that we all have different roles that we play in life.

Myself, I'm a father, I'm a husband, I'm a performance psychologist, I'm an avid pickleball player, tennis player on the weekends.

And if I executed the same mindset for every role that I play, research is pretty clear, I'm not going to do many of those roles very well.

So I think one of the ways to catalyze a certain mindset for a certain role that we see these top performers do is they have what we call pre-performance routines.

So I think that's one of the easiest ways to think about transitioning into a certain mindset to a high performance role.

Yeah, the metaphor I really like is a dimmer switch.

So the most popular pre-performance routines for humans to perform is probably music.

Think about, you know, if you want to go perform something athletically or a very important business presentation to a client or to a boss or to a teammate.

Think about maybe a song that might catalyze and get those juices and the focus going.

So pre-performance routines can be workouts.

They can be mantras.