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Understanding Peak Performance for Athletes with Dr. Alex Auerbach

Name: Understanding Peak Performance for Athletes with Dr. Alex Auerbach
Uploaded: 2023-04-25T20:12:05+00:00
Duration: 46 s
Channel: Alex Auerbach
Description: A short interview/transcript excerpt where Dr. Alex Auerbach discusses the nature of peak performance in athletes, distinguishing it from the…

25 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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A short interview/transcript excerpt where Dr. Alex Auerbach discusses the nature of peak performance in athletes, distinguishing it from the psychological state of flow. He describes peak performance as expressing full potential in competitive events (e.g., setting a new personal record), and notes that it can feel like flow or, alternatively, like a difficult grind.

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So it's tricky because I think sometimes people often think that peak performance feels like flow, and flow may or may not be a peak performance. And so, to me, peak performance is really about those kind of unique circumstances in which you express your full potential in the context of a competitive event. Right. You do something that you've just never done before at a really, really high level, and you sort of establish a new PR that you're now constantly trying to replicate. So sometimes that can feel like flow, right? It can feel like being fully immersed in the situation, being incredibly responsive, losing track of time. Things feel almost, like, effortless, even though they're effortful. But it can also feel really hard. Right. It can feel like a grind. It can feel like wishing things would just be over.