• Peak Performance

  • Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success
  • By: Brad Stulberg, Steve Magness
  • Narrated by: Christopher Lane
  • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (8,768 ratings)

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Winner of the 2018 Audie Award for Best Business/Personal Development Audiobook

"A transfixing book on how to sustain peak performance and avoid burnout" ― Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Option B, Originals, and Give and Take

"An essential playbook for success, happiness, and getting the most out of ourselves." ― Arianna Huffington, author of Thrive and The Sleep Revolution

"I doubt anyone can read Peak Performance without itching to apply something to their own lives." ― David Epstein, New York Times bestselling author of The Sports Gene

A few common principles drive performance, regardless of the field or the task at hand. Whether someone is trying to qualify for the Olympics, break ground in mathematical theory or craft an artistic masterpiece, many of the practices that lead to great success are the same. In Peak Performance, Brad Stulberg, a former McKinsey and Company consultant and journalist who covers health and the science of human performance, and Steve Magness, a performance scientist and coach of Olympic athletes, team up to demystify these practices and demonstrate how everyone can achieve their best.

The first book of its kind, Peak Performance combines the inspiring stories of top performers across a range of capabilities - from athletic, to intellectual, to artistic - with the latest scientific insights into the cognitive and neurochemical factors that drive performance in all domains. In doing so, Peak Performance uncovers new linkages that hold promise as performance enhancers but have been overlooked in our traditionally-siloed ways of thinking. The result is a life-changing book in which listeners will learn how to enhance their performance via myriad ways including: optimally alternating between periods of intense work and rest; developing and harnessing the power of a self-transcending purpose; and priming the body and mind for enhanced productivity.

In revealing the science of great performance and the stories of great performers across a wide range of capabilities, Peak Performance uncovers the secrets of success, and coaches listeners on how to use them. If you want to take your game to the next level, whatever "your game" may be, Peak Performance will teach you how.

©2016 Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness. (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., under license from Rodale Inc. All rights reserved.

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Actionable

Re fenced a lot of different subjects and information, but wraps it all up with some great simple actionable steps.

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lots of great ideas

although you can bookmark different sections I found it much easier to take notes while I listened. There are so many great tips and ideas. Very practical. Definitely going to listen to it a second time.

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Not just for runners

When I started this book, I thought it was written for runners. There was actually very little running in it. It was about peak performance in all areas of life. Great for anyone wanting to be or do their best.

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Great book!

I loved the content of this book; pleasable to hear and extremely educating. GREAT WORK!

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Great clues

In a easy and explicit way the authors teach us how to improve our life to and be succesful

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Science backed, and totally practical strategies

I wasn't sure what to expect with this book, and actually thought I was not going to enjoy it. I was pleasantly surprised! It is packed with data, stories, and strategies to help anyone break through to the next level. This should be required reading!

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Not what I expected, but..

An ok read, had some good points but felt that the same info could easily been compressed to less than half the time.

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An excellent book with very applicable advice and tips on how to reach peak performance as well as a sound framework for approaching the challenge of continued self development

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wow, a holistic approach to better yourself

I have read hundreds of book and I can confidently say that this is one of the best well put, organized, researched, and narrated books out there.

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Concise and practical

This is what I look for in a self development book. Information backed by science with practical application.

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