Maximise Your Performance: This Week's Top Insights
Maximise Your Performance: This Week's Top Insights
Lessons from 28 years of solo practice, question traps, and more
Hi, it’s Clive. I wrote this for people who are committed to exceptional performance. Let's exchange what's predictable for what's possible.
This week, you’ve got an opportunity to learn about a variety of topics.
Time distortion techniques.
Advice for a younger self.
Presuppositions as an artful language pattern.
And more.
Reading time: You decide.
This week was mega-busy. Time seemed to shrink. How about you?
I wrote about this kind of time distortion a few weeks ago in my post Time Shifting for Elite Performance.
I’ve been writing a lot recently for a 30-day writing challenge. The idea is to write an essay every day for 30 consecutive days. It’s going well so far, today is day 21 / 30.
Someone asked how I find time for this. A reasonable question since each post takes me between 60 - 90 minutes to complete. But, I make time for writing, I don’t find it.
That means it’s scheduled each day, because it’s important to me.
It does help that I’m without Netflix right now. Although I often write while “watching” a film. Having something on in the background helps me concentrate.
For this week’s Go Against Gravity I’m sharing some of the writing from this week.
That way you’ll see what you might have missed. And they’re all about newsletter length, so think of them as a bonus. If none of the titles grab your attention, you can always check out the complete archive here.
Here goes:
Turns out this week it's my 28th year as a solo practitioner. Who’d have thought it. Not me. I’m not good at keeping track of these things: Lessons learnt: 28 Years of Solo Practice.
Long hours, intense focus. If that's what drives you, here's a thought that might give you pause. That non-stop work ethic is actually undermining your success: The Hidden Cost of Skipping Breaks: Why High Achievers Need to Pause.
In business, the right question can be more powerful than any answer. But what if that question has been rigged against you from the start? As a high achiever you’ll already know success attracts subtle challenges — sneaky top table politics: Are You Falling for These Question Traps?
Imagine walking into your office and finding the finance manager fumbling through a client pitch, while your usually introverted developer is leading a board meeting: Chaos or Brilliance? A Team Swap Experiment.
Feeling stuck in your professional growth? It might be time to bring in some backup. Let's talk about bringing in a sparring partner to enhance your performance: Enhance Your Performance: The Power of Thought Sparring.
There's plenty of insights and tips here. Please let me know which you chose to read and what you learnt that was useful.
Until next week.
Clive
🚀 Before you go, let me ask — what would compel you to make time to write?
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