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The show that takes athletic introverted entrepreneurs and leaders and transforms them into ironclad brain performers.
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13 Surgeries, 8 Years of Opiates, and One Life-Changing Invention - Reid Robinson (opens the original)
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A car crash so violent the impact was like hitting a tree at 50 km/h with his bare foot. 13 surgeries. A 16-hour bone transplant. 8 years of chronic pain. Most people would be focused just on surviving. @Reid Robinson focused on inventing. Frustrated by the nerve damage and exhaustion caused by standard crutches, Reid went into his garage and built the first X-Leg—a hands-free "exoskeleton" that elevates the foot and transfers weight to the thigh. Now, he’s helping the 6 million people who need
Two Bottles of Wine and 20-Hour Days: Surviving the Executive Burnout Trap - Jimmy Burroughes (opens the original)
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Working harder isn't the solution. It's the default. 🧠 Jimmy Burroughes learned that the hard way — as an ex-British Army officer who climbed into a GM role and watched his body give out. Three bosses in 18 months. Legislation that wiped $20M off his bottom line overnight. 20-hour days. A glass of wine that became two bottles, then coffee and Coke Zero to get going. 25 kilos heavier, hungover, staring at 75 unread emails — wondering if he'd end up hurting himself or someone else. So he resigned
Attention Is a Muscle You Can Train — George Molakal & Lalit Johri (opens the original)
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🧠 Health, performance, and clarity start when you stop treating attention like it’s gone for good. In this episode of The Hardy Brain, George Molakal and Professor Lalit Johri share how Mindspring Innovations is building tools to help kids, executives, athletes, and teams train attention in a world designed to steal it. 🔹 Attention is trainable — like a muscle, it can be strengthened over time 🔹 Flow beats distraction — the goal is deeper engagement, not just less screen time 🔹 Environment matte
Why You Can’t Think Your Way Out of a Performance Slump - Dr. Richard Oelberger (opens the original)
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🧠 Your brain isn't separate from your performance — it creates it. Somatic psychologist Dr. Richard Oelberger spent years living "divorced" from himself: therapist by day, athlete by night, two different people. He's worked Skid Row crisis calls and now consults on sports performance tech. Here's what he's learned: 🔥 Under stress, your vision literally narrows — that's why you throw the easy pass at someone's foot 😤 Anger usually isn't the real emotion. It's a charge that ends in collapse, shutd
NASA Never Asked for Perfect. Neither Should You. - John Mollura (opens the original)
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John Mollura built chemical warfare protection systems for Special Forces pilots . He worked on the F-35 . He helped send hardware to Mars . And for 8 years, he felt like a complete fake. The overthinking. The "one more revision." The obsession with getting it perfect — it all looked like diligence. It was actually armor. He was terrified that if he handed his work to a colleague, they'd finally see he didn't belong. Until a sign at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory changed everything. A symposiu
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