Sustainable High Performance: failure, flexibility, values and vitality - Jonah Oliver

The Shaun McCambridge Podcast

Jonah Oliver is a distinguished performance psychologist known for his work with elite athletes like golfer Cameron Smith, V8 teams, surgeons, business leaders, and more. Jonah brings his wealth of experience to the table, discussing the intricate details of sustained high performance.

Key Topics Covered:

• Understanding Sustained High Performance: Exploration of what sustained high-performance means and how it can be achieved.
• The Role of Failure in Success: Discussion on why failure is essential to achieving success and how it shapes high-performing individuals.
• Neurobiology of Stress: Insight into the brain's response to stress and techniques to manage and interpret stress positively.
• Psychological Flexibility: Explanation of psychological flexibility and its crucial role in maintaining high performance.
• Vision and Values: The importance of having a clear vision and strong values in both personal and professional life.
• Practical Insights and Strategies: Jonah shares practical advice on dealing with challenges, and adversity, and developing a growth mindset.
• Applying Psychological Science: How psychological principles can be applied across different contexts, from sports to surgery to business.
• Developing a Growth Mindset: The necessity of real-life exposure to stress and adversity for developing a growth mindset.

Key Quotes:

1. "Failure is a prerequisite to success. If you want to achieve great things, you have to be willing to feel the pain, the price of entry."
2. "You do not learn a growth mindset by reading a book on it. You only develop it through in situ exposure."
3. "Life is not about how hard things are. It’s about how important things are."
4. "Psychological flexibility is the beating heart of sustained high performance."
5. "Doing the things that matter with the people that matter in a values-based way is the recipe for a life of sustained high performance."