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Mental Training Lab

Don’t Let Optimization Hold You Hostage

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In this solocast, I’m exploring a paradox I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: the more optimized a system becomes, the more fragile it can get. We start with sleep, but this applies to performance routines, recovery, leadership, training, and the way we prepare for just about anything. When everything has to go exactly right in order for us to feel ready, we end up narrowing the window for success. So I’m breaking down the difference between fragile, resilient, and anti-fragile systems, an...

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