Lessons on Excellence: Caring, Doing the Work, and Being Antifragile

About this episode

The episode discusses key habits of excellent performers through recent examples.

Today, we discuss three moments from the past week that highlight a few of the key habits of truly excellent performers: what Victor Wenbanyama teaches us about caring deeply and being yourself; how the failed Enhanced Games highlights the importance of showing up to put in the work; and why a three-glasses-of-wine hangover proves being antifragile trumps optimization. - Get a free LMNT drink mix pack with any purchase: drinkLMNT.com/Clay - To learn more about Jim Ryun's running camps, visit ryunrunning.com - Subscribe to The Growth Equation newsletter - Join The Growth Equation Academy - If you are enjoying "excellence, actually," do us a huge favor: text your favorite episode to three people so they can enjoy it, too. Thanks! iTunes and Apple Podcasts Spotify Android PocketCasts See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Hosts: Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg, Clay Skipper

Topics covered

• excellence
• performance habits
• antifragility
• self-improvement
• work ethic

Keywords

• excellence
• performance
• antifragile
• work ethic
• self-improvement

Sponsors

LMNT

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Enhanced Games, Jim Ryun's running camps, The Growth Equation, excellence, actually

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