High Performance: Lessons from the Best on Becoming Your Best

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He analyses what the most important moment of a lesson is and how good teachers, coaches and parents can utilise this to make the biggest impact. I also participate in other affiliate programs, such as Blinkist, MindValley, Audible, Audiobooks, and others. But, I found “High Performance, Lessons from the Best on Becoming Your Best” a very accessible book because of how it is written.

It reads easily but hits home with some hard truths and you can’t escape a generous amount of introspection. Damian Hughes is an expert on high-performance sporting cultures and a visiting professor at Manchester Metropolitan University.What is apparent across all high performers is that they anticipate positive social interactions and they strive consciously and consistently to create them. He shares with Jake and Damian how growing up in a challenging household, living in 15 different homes and a difficult relationship with his father, instilled in him a sense of purpose. Kelly Holmes describes how losing a race was the moment she learned she needed to do things differently resulting in her becoming an Olympic Champion. Also acknowledge peoples character, their connections, and their contributions, and challenge them to improve them. So there’s great similarity between what Frankl saw for a purposeful life then and what’s considered a purposeful life now.

There are some tips to be found amongst the chaff but, on the whole, this book offers nothing new and is far too reliant upon the message that the lessons of sporting superstars are relevant to the average person. They want to know that their efforts align with something important, that their work is significant, and that their lives are creating a legacy and feeding a larger purpose. It would be a great for a person who is really sport minded and into sports personalities, but unfortunately I am not that person.Many describe the times they failed, and how failure was a pivotal moment on their journey to succeeding. This is the second book based on a podcast that I’ve read, and on this evidence it will be the last (the other one was “Talking Sopranos”). Brendon gives a real image about what it means to be a high performer and the struggle it takes to get there. I have followed the High Performance Podcast for a while, and I have appreciated the variety of guest interviews that Jake Humphreys and Professor Damian Hughes have each podcast.