Performance Intelligence

6:43

Bite Size: Why Win-At-All-Costs Doesn't Survive...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/10/04

Olympic gold medallist, Michael Klim, explains why the mentality that won him 17 years of world records nearly destroyed his life after retirement. Michael took the same win-at-all-costs approach into business: redeye flights, fourteen-hour days, no off switch, and it cost him his relationship, his mental health, and eventually his body.You can find Michael at his TGI Sport Profile: https://tgisport.com.au/talent/michael-klim/At his Website: https://www.michaelklim.com/Or on Instagram:

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10:11

Bite Size: What Creatine Actually Does to a...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/09/30

Creatine has spent decades filed under gym supplements, something for building muscle and nothing else. Dr Tom Buckley says that filing is out of date. A recent meta-analysis found measurable improvements in memory, attention and processing speed among people taking creatine, distinct from any effect on strength or size. Buckley, who has spent his career researching human performance, is careful about what the research does and does not show. What it does show, for a desk-bound brain rather

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0:54

Bite Size: The Weeks You're Allowed to Just Survive |...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/09/27

Most productivity systems quietly punish you for a bad week. Andrew May's Better Week framework budgets for them. The target is 25 to 30 genuinely good weeks a year, a number most high performers find uncomfortably low, which leaves room for the stretches when everything lands at once. He walks Angela Poon, Performance Intelligence COO, through the maths. What he calls the rest of the year, and what changes when you say it out loud to your team on a Monday. High performance is not about

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12:50

Bite Size: The Skill Sport Teaches That Leaves You...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/09/23

Years of touring teach cricketers to be very comfortable in their own company. Coffee when you want it, lunch when you want it, a day built entirely around you. Former Test wicketkeeper Steve Rixon argues the skill cuts both ways: it protects you on the road, then quietly isolates you once the career ends and the kids leave home. Former Test fast bowler Stuart Clark has already had to work it out for himself. What each of them realised was missing, and why it had nothing to do with

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9:01

Bite Size: How to Step Down Without Screwing It Up |...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/09/20

Founders love to talk about building a company. They rarely talk honestly about giving it up. Michael Bungay Stanier, best known for his book The Coaching Habit, did exactly that at Box of Crayons, the company he founded, stepping down as CEO in a transition he says most founders manage badly. What made his different, and the specific temptation he had to resist to actually let go, is the part of this conversation worth sitting with. Find Michael at his LinkedIn:

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68:43

The Science of Mental Fitness: Why Movement is...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/09/16

A professor at Harvard and MIT wrecked his knee and stopped running the 7.5 miles he ran every night of his adult life. 5 months later he could not finish his own work. He was losing the thread in conversations, forgetting things he had never forgotten, and getting angry in a way he did not recognise. He was convinced he had developed adult ADD in middle age.He hadn't. He had just stopped running...The psychiatrist who worked that out went looking for evidence that barely existed at the

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9:07

Bite Size: The Simple Habit That Flattens Your Energy...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/09/13

Most nutrition advice focuses on what you eat. Dr Amantha Imber, an organisational psychologist and author of The Health Habit, became more interested in what happens after you eat, and started wearing a continuous glucose monitor on herself to find out. The device tracks blood sugar in real time, and what she discovered about a specific ten-minute habit after meals surprised her enough to build it into how she coaches high performers now. What that habit is, and why flat blood sugar

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67:26

Conflict Expert: What Swallowed Words Costs a High...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/09/09

You have rehearsed it in the shower. You have written the message and deleted it. And every time the moment arrives, you find a reason it can wait until next quarter.That conversation is still making decisions for you. It decides who gets the promotion, which project quietly dies, and which good person leaves without ever telling you the real reason.Tim Duggan spent 3 years inside one question: how do you get better at conflict? He built a media company out of a website he started in his

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7:52

Bite Size: The Two Steps That Stop a Player Throwing...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/09/06

A young player once told Gilbert Enoka that his advice was rubbish. On the field, when a referee makes a call he disagrees with, he wants to throw a punch, and no amount of mindset work was going to change that in the moment. Enoka, the All Blacks' mental skills coach for 23 years, did not argue the point. He gave the player a simple physical structure instead, and the player's own frustration rating dropped within seconds of trying it. It is the example Enoka now uses to explain why he

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69:22

Performance Nutrition: Lessons From Special Ops +...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/09/02

Elite athletes and Special Forces do not eat like you do....and the reason you fade in the afternoon is usually something you did that morning.Jessica Spendlove will tell you exactly what. She will also tell you what to eat when you have 4 minutes and no time to think, whether the supplements you bought are doing anything at all, and why she rarely recommends that a woman fast.Jessica is a performance dietitian with more than 15 years behind her, a decade of it in elite sport across 7

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9:00

Bite Size: You Are Almost Certainly Underestimating...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/08/30

There is a gap between what you are capable of and what you are actually doing. Craig Harper has spent 40 years studying it. His view: the gap is not primarily a talent problem or a knowledge problem. It is a psychological one. Fear, the need to be right, poor self-awareness, and an unwillingness to tolerate discomfort are quietly capping the performance of people who are objectively skilled, experienced, and intelligent. And the higher you rise, the easier it becomes to avoid confronting

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56:09

Mental Agility: Why it's so Important & How to Train...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/08/26

Some people get sharper when the pressure lands. The meeting turns hostile, the plan collapses, the number comes in wrong, and they are still thinking clearly while everyone around them has gone quiet or gone hard.That is Mental Agility. The capacity to move between demands, tasks, roles and relationships while staying grounded and effective when conditions change. It is trainable, and it is the capability every organisation is now asking for without ever having taught it.PQ founder, Andrew

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7:42

Bite Size: A Debrief Won't Fix a Numb Team | Ex-SAS...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/08/23

A suicide bomber walked into a crowded local event in rural Afghanistan, and Harry Moffitt's small medical team spent the day treating the dead and dying. By the afternoon his unit sat in near silence, exhausted and numb. Moffitt, who spent close to three decades in Australia's Special Air Service, reached for the one thing he carried on every deployment for exactly this reason. What happened next, in the middle of one of the worst days of his career, became one of the most effective group

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64:05

We Have Misdiagnosed a Generation of Exhausted...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/08/19

You're probably treating recovery as the reward for hard work, when elite sport treats it as part of the work.Andrew May has spent more than two decades coaching in sport and business, and Andrew thinks we have misdiagnosed a generation of exhausted leaders. Call it burnout and you go looking for rest. Andrew says the shortfall is usually capacity, and the first move is measuring it rather than resting on it.Pod O'Sullivan had Andrew on Don't Let The Old Man In podcast and asked him the

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15:09

Bite Size: Forget Your Why. Start With How... | Keith...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/08/16

Most goal-setting advice starts with your why, the deep, soul-searching question everyone knows they're meant to answer but rarely do. Keith Abraham, one of the world's leading authorities on goal achievement, thinks that's exactly backwards, and too hard for anyone with a job and a diary.He starts somewhere else entirely, with a short list of feelings almost nobody names out loud before setting a goal. Once that shifts, the goal itself, the reasons behind it, and the people who can help

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84:59

Mental Skills that Saved the Only Person who has had...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/08/12

What do you do when the version of yourself that's winning is also the version that's breaking?You know the feeling, hitting every number, saying yes to everything, and still walking away from the day feeling like you performed it rather than lived it. Now imagine finding the exact moment that stopped working, and the one small shift that got you back.Most high performers don't burn out overnight. It happens one performance at a time, right up until the body forces the stop, mid show, mid

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7:47

Bite Size: A Bad Day is a Jacket, Not an Identity |...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/08/09

Rose Herceg, President of WPP Australia and New Zealand, has a specific image she uses to stop a hard day turning into something bigger, something she thinks most people have lost the ability to do. Running a business of 2,500 people through a genuinely volatile industry, she has no shortage of bad days. What she refuses to do is let one bad day become a bad week, a bad month, or a story about who she is. The image itself is deceptively simple. What's harder, and more useful, is the

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64:22

The Science of Fasting & How to Use It for Sharper...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/08/05

When did you last actually let yourself feel hungry? Not the "due for a snack" kind. Properly, deliberately hungry, on purpose. If you can't remember, you're not alone. Now imagine using that discomfort as a lever instead of avoiding it.Every reflexive snack, every meeting that runs straight into the next, every bite you take before your body even asks for it keeps you running on one setting. You never give your body the signal to switch fuel sources, sharpen your focus, or clean house at a

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6:42

Bite Size: What a Great Coach Does When Your...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/08/02

Most leaders try to restore a struggling performer's confidence with a pep talk. It almost never works. When Jason McCartney had written himself off, a coach did something far more deliberate, and it pulled him back from the edge of walking away. The approach is simple, repeatable, and the opposite of what most people reach for. You can find Jason at his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-mccartney-oam-b10a39217/Use Code "PQPODCAST10" to get 10% off your Lumo Coffee

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74:49

The "Why Not?" Mindset: How to Break Self-Imposed...

Performance Intelligence ·

2026/07/29

What goes through your mind when you're trapped underwater by a 50-foot wave? For Matt Formston, it's not fear. It's making an omelette.After losing 97% of his vision at just 5 years old, Matt has become a Paralympian, world champion, world record holder, and the first blind athlete to conquer the legendary waves of Nazaré. But today isn't about the achievements...it's about the process behind them.Matt shares the 8 hard standards that have shaped every part of his life, from elite sport

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