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• The hosts discuss their decision to pause production of their podcast due to personal and professional complexities |
• They acknowledge listener enthusiasm and desire for the show to continue, but needed to take a break to recharge and reassess priorities |
• High-performance mindset is discussed as a key concept, including knowing what you can control and operating within those boundaries |
• The hosts touch on self-awareness, reflection, and evaluating patterns in life to make informed decisions |
• They also discuss the importance of repetition and practice in developing skills and achieving high performance, citing examples from athletics and personal development |
• Building skills through practice and mental discipline |
• The importance of goal setting and clarity in achieving success |
• Overcoming challenges and maintaining motivation when tired or uncertain |
• Developing high performance habits such as seeking clarity, generating energy, and demonstrating courage |
• Understanding the difference between "things you have" and "things you do" |
• Clarity as a key driver in decision-making and achievement of goals |
• Identifying activities, people, or places that give energy and motivation |
• Cultivating energy through awareness and practice |
• Perspective-taking and shifting assumptions based on new information |
• High-performance mindset and long-term perspective |
• Impact of one's personality and behavior on others' energy and motivation |
• Importance of treating others with consideration in personal and professional settings |
• Tolerating toxic behavior vs high performance |
• Flexibility and giving people second chances in certain situations |
• Focus as a key component of high performance |
• Importance of having a clear direction or "mission" in personal and team endeavors |
• Being deliberate and vigilant with focus to achieve goals |
• The value of being mission-minded, especially in families and teams. |
• Discussing the concept of "high performance" and how it can be applied to various aspects of life |
• Mentioning resources such as a Harvard Business Review article and Brendon Burchard's book "High Performance Habits" |
• Talking about the importance of setting deadlines and goals for achieving high performance |
• Reflecting on the challenges of producing a podcast that requires deep thinking and emotional investment |
• Discussing the value of curiosity and the pursuit of learning in achieving high performance |
**Adam Stacoviak:** So we're back. This is Brain Science, Mireille, and it's good to see you again. |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** It's great to see you, too. It's been a while. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** It's been a short minute... And I think like anything in life, whenever you make commitments, whenever you create something new, you have to think "Can I sustain this thing? Can I keep the clip that I'm going at? Is what I'm doing today sustainable for tomorrow?" And sometimes you have to ask those ... |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** Yeah, yes indeed. I mean, having worked with a lot of people over a number of years, decisions are a thing. And I've often said "When you don't know, you don't go", and so that really gets at pause. We had a number of things, for you and for me, that complicated what we were doing. And so just... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Yeah, for sure. |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** ...because the desire hasn't waned. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** No. I think the desire has been there for the listenership, and I think the desire has been there for us.. And I've gotta give a shout-out to many people over the last months and years who have just reached out about the show, saying, "Hey, when's it coming back? I love this show. It's changed my mi... |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** Yeah. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** ...I just found myself referencing the show, often. |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** Yeah, I couldn't agree more; a huge shout-out, and thank you to all the listeners... Because I've repeatedly been asked, "Are you going to do more? Are you gonna come back?" And just really important - I love being able to create and share, so that other people have these tools and skills. I t... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** I can barely count the amount of times I've said, "Be your own scientist", things like that that we have said on this podcast several times; I just have referenced several things we've said. And it's good, but it's also quite sad, because it hasn't been here. But part of our conversation today is on... |
I think one of the things of being a high performer, or having a high-performing mind, or mindset, is knowing what you can control. And I think for us, when it came to this show, we knew we couldn't control the cadence that was going on, and things like that. And so just as a trait, maybe a somewhat segue to the actual... |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** Yes. Yes, indeed. What comes to mind when you say that is actually like being more reflective. So we don't have awareness without reflecting upon things. So looking at patterns in your life, to go "How is this working?" It's even interesting, in day to day there was a situation wherein I was a... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Tell me... |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** Right. But giving the opportunity to evaluate. And so to step back and look at things from different angles, to go, "Is this really working?" And I think so much of what's fun in life is to be able to repeatedly examine things, and go, "What are the variables involved with X decision, what I'm... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** \[06:17\] Is being high-performance predicated on, say, your attributes? Your beauty, your height, your muscle, all the different things that people seem to have vanity around, or feel insecure about when they look in the mirror, or when they judge themselves? Are those things the important things f... |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** I wouldn't say that those are the things, because those aren't within your charge; at least not completely. Because I would say, very much like athletics, there's a training. So if we're going "What does high performance look like?", it's learning how to actually perform. And so there's aspect... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Yes... |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** So our brain is this complex system of pathways that we've practiced. And so the more you do a thing, the more your brain runs that same play. And so high performance has a lot more to do with the way that you think, and sort of the things that you practice over and over and over again. |
I'm forgetting the reference, but this is true in athletics, that generally speaking, the people who are incredibly successful have done really well at practicing fundamentals over and over and over and over again... Because the body and the brain sync together, so that they just have that one tenth of a second speed t... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Yeah. No hesitation. I think that's something that Kobe Bryant, that was really well known for getting up super-early, not practicing once in a day, but more like four or five, or I don't know how many -- like, it was an obscene amount of numbers. It was a lot. Way more than his teammates were doing... |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** Yeah. Yes, indeed. And I think about just the effort people continue to put forth... It's really this perspective to make somewhat boring things fun. And then with that, incremental progress. So there's a goal setting mindset of like "Oh my gosh, if I can do this... I was so close, I got to C ... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** \[10:03\] Yes. Very hard to push through whenever you're tired, though. I think that's a challenge for I think me in particular, when things get hard and I'm already tired, and they get double hard. But that's the chance to react a certain way whenever the task at hand seems insurmountable, unachiev... |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** I pull the "some thing" over the "no thing." \[laughs\] |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Okay... |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** So if I can just start, or do something for two minutes, then I'm not creating more of an obstacle mentally with doing whatever I'm seeking to do. Like, can you just get up? Can you just go start to write? Go spend two minutes in front of the computer, or writing in your notebook? Whatever it ... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** For sure. Yeah. I think in conversations preparatory for this there was a book that you referenced that I actually had in my library, that I had not listened to, and I believe it's "High performance habits", if I recall correctly, from Brendon Burchard. |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** Yep. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** And there was like a framework he had shared, and the reason why I asked you the question around physicality, and all these other attributes is he basically determined that it was not true. That it was really about the things you did, versus the things you have. So they weren't innate abilities... |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** Whoa, whoa, whoa. Go back. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Okay. |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** That was so, so big. You said "not the things you have, but the things you do." |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Yes. It's more about the things you do than the things you have. And it was how you react to certain things. And there was a list he gave... I wrote them down, so maybe we can use this as at least a buffer of sorts, but he said "Seek clarity." These high performance habits, one of the habits is "See... |
Second, he said "Generate energy, raise necessity, increase productivity, develop influence, and demonstrate courage." And having been in the military, that was in our thing - to be a leader, one of the things was you had to build courage, and it was be courageous in the in the face of uncertainty. So it was something ... |
**Mireille Reece, PsyD:** \[laughs\] |
**Adam Stacoviak:** So I can attest to that one, at least. |
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