If you are reading this, it’s likely because you share a common thread with many athletes, which is the desire to improve your athletic and personal potential. Dedicating yourself to learning and applying best practices and methods for achieving enduring health and high performance seems straightforward enough. Unfortunately, the challenge many people face is being able to filter through the blizzard of information and advice from performance experts and coaches. With health gurus, high-performance nutritionists, endurance coaches, life coaches, and an ever-growing list of specialists in related fields, all with seemingly sound theories and approaches, how do you know who to listen to? How do you differentiate a gimmick from good advice?

It can be confusing and frustrating to cut through all the contradictions and rival theories, but with a solid guiding principle in your approach to education, you can use the wealth of knowledge to your benefit and determine which advice should be taken to heart and which should be taken with a grain of salt.

Today Matt will highlight:

• The challenge of taking well-intentioned advice from performance experts and coaches.

(31:02) “You can be learning and be inspired from a host of experts in fields, but at the same time, from those very same experts, you can fall into traps of quick fixes, instant gratifications, and ultimately culdesacs of performance failure.”

• The key voices and their differences, and how to build your personal filter for this type of education.

(19:58) “I think one of the first steps to this is understanding who you are listening to, and what challenge they are trying to solve. And then the key component is take that information, filter it and apply it to your own goals, your own situation, and ultimately yourself.”

• Creating a framework for approaching advice across health and performance and how to plot the best path for your performance journey.

(31:35) “I would encourage you to think in terms of long term, not interventions. That's just a globally smart way to approach performance.”

(32:49) “Nothing of long-term value is going to come from some radical short-term intervention.”

The goal of today’s conversation is to provide you with clarity on how to approach advice and education and how to apply it within the context of your body, your journey, and your situation.

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