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Building Real-world Resilience
Resilience is often described as toughness, grit, or the ability to keep going. These descriptions are incomplete. They name the outcome without explaining the process....
Rethinking mindfulness in high performance
Mindfulness is now widely used across sport, defence, and organisational settings. It is often positioned as a method for reducing stress or improving calm. That...
Why character still matters in high performance
In high performance environments, attention often centres on intelligence, technical skill, and data. These factors provide a partial account of performance. They explain how individuals...
What are the hormonal costs of sleep restriction?
If you are anything like me, you might have noticed that the social media algorithms think you have low testosterone. Not a day goes by...
Cognitive Load and AI: What’s this ChatGPMG?
While having a coffee with a colleague on a military base a few years ago, I was asked this simple question.
He had found OpenAI’s LLM,...
Human Performance: Science, Strategies, and Real-World Application. What is human performance?
Introduction: Human performance is the science and practice of optimising how people think, move, recover, and excel under pressure. Regardless of your profession, understanding human...
The Science of Sleep Deprivation: Dr. Allison Brager’s Insights on Optimising Human Performance
What really happens when you lose sleep? In our latest Optimising Human Performance Podcast, we sat down with Dr. Allison...
Optimising Performance Under Pressure: What Actually Holds Up When It Matters
Pressure has a way of stripping things back.
When time is short, stakes are high, and uncertainty is unavoidable, the techniques that sound good tend...