Dr Richard Young: How to become a high performer

Athletics For Life

We are very honoured to share with you our interview with Dr Richard Young. Dr Richard Young has over 30 years of experience in performance alignment. He has personal experience across 9 Olympics in multiple roles (athlete, coach, scientist, leader). He was part of Canada’s Olympic Cycling Team at the Seoul 1988 Olympic games and has been involved with the New Zealand Olympic Committee for many years. He won international gold medals, coached world champions, researched performance and created programmes that contributed to Olympic medals for three countries

Dr Richard Young works with individuals, teams and leaders in high performance and Olympic sport to align actions with what matters to performance. Achieve more, simplers and more meaningfully. He is driven by seeing people achieve their potential faster and lighter. He focuses on advancing human behavioural performance. Dr Richard Young works with businesses, organizations and individuals to increase performance and achieve results through a range of growth, perspective and organizational performance programmes.

He got his PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Calgary. He targeted research to the differences between medalists and non-medalists, their coaches, supporters and leaders. Dr Richard Young strives to simplify the 'performance problem' and impact the performance solution.

Only on the Athletics For Life Podcast, you hear what it takes to be a high performer!

'The expert performer works to the truth; a future can not be created without it' - Dr Richard Young

'Self-awareness is the number one muscle for high performance' - Dr Richard Young

'Beliefs + Habits + Actions = A High Performer' - Dr Richard Young

'Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn’t happen' - Malcolm Gladwell

'Flow state is halfway between anxiety and boredom' - Firas Zahabi

'Music ain’t notes man, it’s the space between the notes' - BB King

Book recommendation: PEAK - Secrets From The New Science Of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool - https://www.amazon.com/Peak-Secrets-N...​

Website Simplifly2Perform: https://www.simplify2perform.com/​

May 2021 Dr Richard Young's new book: The High Performance Playbook

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Host(s): CD Johnson & Jeff Koops

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Special Guest: Dr Richard Young

Camera & editing: Scott Lillis

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