Beyond Luck: The 5 Sources of Advantage You Need to Win (Audio)

In the first of a special two-part episode, celebrated performance psychologist Gio Valiante calls on his vast experience working with some of the world’s top athletes and entrepreneurs. Shane and Valiante discuss developing discipline and resilience in work and life. Valiante offers his thoughts on the five ways to gain an advantage and win and how to change your habits. He also discusses the role your environment plays in discipline and how you can develop resilience in yourself and your children.

Valiante is regarded as one of the most successful performance coaches in the world. He’s worked extensively with golfers on the PGA and LPGA Tours, Olympic athletes, and leading figures in NCAA football and the NFL, where he served as the Head Performance Coach of the Buffalo Bills. He has also logged over 5,000 hours coaching some of the most sophisticated investors in the world, including hedge fund manager Steve Cohen.

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00:00 - Intro
05:42 - 5 ways to gain an advantage and compete and win
22:23 - How do you coach someone to be more disciplined?
28:15 - How the environment impacts behavior
37:06 - How to develop resilience in ourselves and others
49:13 - Bonus: Shane’s extra sources of advantage

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[tkppodcast]

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[chadcavender]

So happy that's someone on these types of podcasts is brave enough to utter Jordan Peterson's name!

[giantakeshi]

thanks for the session, working on changing behaviour and habits for discipline in good approach

[MaurovandeLooij]

Thank you so much for this podcast episode, loved it! What is the self efficacy in math study Valiante talked about? Does anyone have title, authors or link to this study? Thank you!

[ReflectionOcean]

These insights emphasize the importance of innate talent, hard work, unique perspectives, disciplined processes, resilience, the role of environment, and the development of discipline in achieving success in various domains...

Design a life with a consistent process to guard against life's variability. (Start timestamp: 18:11)
Apply the Fearless Golf routine to maintain psychological consistency in variable conditions. (Start timestamp: 18:47)
Hire effectively to compensate for personal deficiencies and manage people well. (Start timestamp: 20:46)
Recognize the importance of primal cues in talent development and the role of the environment in shaping behavior. (Start timestamp: 34:44)
Develop resilience by allowing children to experience normative failure and learn from it. (Start timestamp: 38:45)
Reinforce work ethic and the control over success through persistent effort in children. (Start timestamp: 48:14)

[whobark]

This looks very basic on the thumbnail but has tons of value

[thewize]

Feedback: not a fan of the click bait style thumbs, I like to see the name of the guest but more importantly what they do (because tkp is usually the first time I've heard of them)

[lordsoccer]

I just figured out yesterday that most rich crypto holders invest with professional crypto traders to learn new strategies and earn huge amount of money. How true is this