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Knowledge Under Pressure
On Breath, Failure, and Talent
Field notes from what we’ve been up to, what we’ve been taking in, and what we are thinking about at The Emergency Mind Project.
If you have ideas or things you’d like to see — or if you want to help and get more involved — I’d love to hear from you: dan@emergencymind.com
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Episode 62: Rachel Vickery, on Breath, Stress, and Performance
Elite performance expert Rachel Vickery joins the podcast to talk about linking breath with action, handling stress, breaking cycles of failure, and building “awesome.” Really deep dive into autonomic nervous functioning (specifically how we can improve parasympathetic tone during crises), and what we can do on our down time to make our up time more effective.
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The Talent War: How Special Operations and Great Organizations Win on Talent
“Teams aren’t additive. They’re multiplicative.” Fascinating book centered around building a talent-focused mindset and bringing in (and then developing) the best possible individuals for an organization. I highly recommend this book for anyone involved in building elite, mission critical teams. Tons to learn about selection, assessment, and development of high performing individuals.
