Peak Performance with Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness

This week I’m excited to welcome Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness to The Psychology Podcast. Brad writes for Outside, Runner’s World, NPR and has a column in the New Yorker about health and the science of human performance. Steve Magness coaches Olympians and marathoners, lectures at St. Mary’s University on Exercise Science, and writes for numerous publications including Wired, Sports Illustrated and NY Magazine on the science of performance.

Together they are partners in peak performance, in research, and in writing their latest book Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success.

In this conversation, Brad and Steve teach us:

Why the word “performance” can be deceiving and how those of us focused on creative endeavors, who may not think of “performance” as an end goal, can benefit from their research,
Why both physical and cognitive rest are crucial for world-class performance in our pursuits, in what’s known as the Paradox of Rest (some of you probably know how much I love a good paradox!),
How harmonious passion maps onto their ideas about burnout, and how to identify whether a pursuit is rooted in harmonious or obsessive passion,
Why Brad and Steve limit themselves to 24-48 hours of celebration or wallowing after identity-validating or identity-challenging events,
How to optimize our routines to achieve peak performance,
Why transcendence is one of the most underrated characteristics of peak performance.

Links:

Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success is out now

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For coaching or speaking by Brad or Steve you can visit each of their websites:

www.bradstulberg.com (Brad)

www.scienceofrunning.com (Steve)

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About the guest

Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness

Podcast Guest

Brad Stulberg is an American author and performance coach on faculty at the University of Michigan who writes on well-being and sustainable excellence. Steve Magness is an American performance coach and author whose books include Do Hard Things and The Science of Running. They co-authored Peak Performance and The Passion Paradox.

Peak Performance with Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness

Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness

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