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Cognitive Fitness w/ Gary Stebbing (Part 2)
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Cognitive Fitness w/ Gary Stebbing (Part 2)

Periodized Cognitive Fitness: Maximizing Mental Performance

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Consequences of Goals

People who sustain excellence at the highest level understand all of those things and they're non-negotiable. Their goal has taken such a place in their life that they design their life to achieve it.

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Goal-Setting

The biggest mistake I see is the premature establishment of goals and solutions. Not building a rich enough picture of reality. Selecting goals because they think they're the right goals, rather than spending the time to decide what the right goal is.

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Timestamp

0:29 — Complex Systems & Constraints-Led Approach

5:12 — Golf Example of Constraints-Led Approach

8:53 — Holistic Approach to Coaching

12:53 — Cognitive Fitness

15:39 — Periodization

21:53 — Barriers to Cognitive Fitness Training

23:32 — Consequences of Goals

26:43 — Common Mistakes & Recommendations

29:03 — What’s Something You’ve Changed Your Mind On?

31:36 — Book Recommendations

33:36 — Current Projects


Resources

Research Paper #1: Training or Synergizing? Complex Systems Principles Change the Understanding of Sport Processes

Research Paper #2: Cognitive Fitness Framework: Towards Assessing, Training and Augmenting Individual-Difference Factors Underpinning High-Performance Cognition

Book Recommendation #1: Thinking in Systems

Book Recommendation #2: Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age

Book Recommendation #3: Mastery


About Gary Stebbing

Gary Stebbing is based in the United Kingdom. His primary areas of interest are building and sustaining excellence, and human performance. He studied Sport & Exercise Science as an undergraduate and Performance Psychology as a post graduate, and has been a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) for 21 years. 

He is the founder and principal of EVO-C, a thinking capabilities and world building consultancy.

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