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Knowledge Under Pressure
On Forcing Functions and Hard Work
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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Forcing Function Hour Podcast x Dan Dworkis
Thrilled to get to join Chris Sparks on his podcast Forcing Function Hour to talk about improving your decision-making and becoming a great leader in critical situations. We dig into mental preparation, navigating risk and uncertainty, creating high-performing cultures, and much more.
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Hard Work Is Necessary, But Not Sufficient.
“Hard work gets you into the club. It gives you a chance.” Interesting article from the human performance world about hard work being table stakes but not the most important factor driving elite performance. Leads naturally into a conversation about leverage and working smarter to improve performance.
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Higher order cognitive skills — things like learning how to learn, leveraging adaptability and pivoting, recognizing and extracting the…
