Episode 321: Applying the Mindset of an Elite Athlete to Show Up Better in Life
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Mark Cavendish made history with his 35th Tour de France stage win. (Daniel Cole/AP)
Welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. This week's episode discusses the traits that deliver high performance.
Our inspiration for this episode came from two sources. Firstly, the incredible achievement in the recent Tour de France, where Mark Cavendish clinched his 35th stage victory. His story embodies passion, joy, and perseverance despite facing numerous obstacles and setbacks. Following a serious injury last year, he made a remarkable comeback and secured a long-awaited win.
Katie Ledecky smiles after winning her heat during the women’s 400 freestyle preliminaries, June 15, 2004, at the US Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. (Michael Conroy/AP)
The second catalyst was a question received by Matt from an athlete he coaches. This question stemmed from the athlete's observation of the Olympic swimming trials, with the Olympics right around the corner. Watching the returning athletes, many of whom were making their second or third Olympic appearance, left the athlete in awe and sparked thoughts about the mindset of a winner. These seasoned athletes seemed to possess remarkable toughness and composure. Given the stories of comebacks during this year's trials, the athlete wondered if there were lessons that everyday individuals could apply to their own lives.
As it turns out, there are valuable insights to be gained. You don't have to be an elite athlete to draw inspiration from their mindset and the traits that contribute to their success.
In this episode, we'll explore the mindset of high-performance individuals like Mark and discuss the traits that underpin their achievements. Drawing from over 20 years of experience working with elite athletes and organizational leaders, Matt identifies these traits to show how they can be cultivated and developed to enhance performance in any area of focus.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 - 03:39 - Welcome and Episode Introduction
03:46 - 12:53 - The Meat & Potatoes -Part 1- Sustained high performance
12:54 - 13:59 - Purple Patch Promo 1
14:03 - 20:40 - PART 2 - Defining the traits of high performers
20:43 - 22:46 - Purple Patch Promo 2
22:29 - 35:57 - PART 3 - Developing the traits of high performance for yourself
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Matt Dixon 00:00
I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sports into their lives.
Matt Dixon 00:24
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Matt Dixon 01:58
And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast as ever, your host, Matt Dixon. Last week, if you're a fan of the Tour de France, we saw one of the greatest achievements ever in sport; at least, I believe it was Mark Cavendish winning his 35th stage victory. 35 of them are quite amazing. His story is one in which he is an athlete who is full of passion for the process and the joy and love of the sport of cycling, but along the way, he had to navigate so many obstacles, setbacks, and failures. Just last year, if you're a fan of the sport, you'll probably remember Mark crashing out on the stage, breaking his collarbone. It seemed like that career was done, but he decided to come back, and last week, he got that elusive victory. And so what can we learn from Mark's journey? How do we like one of these legends of the sport? Today we're going to dig into mindset a little bit, and we're going to unpack some of the traits and characteristics of a high-performance mindset. But in my observation, over 20 years, of working with world-class athletes and leaders of major organizations, we can identify, and it turns out, teach, learn, educate, hone, and develop these traits that are going to help us show up better and more predictably in anything that we're placing our focus on. It's going to be a fun one. It's all built around an answer to a simple question that I received last week. And so we're not going to do Coach's Corner this week. We're just going to dive right into it, folks. We're talking about the traits of high performance. It is the meat and potatoes.
Matt Dixon 03:46
Yes, folks, the meat and potatoes, and in the introduction, I talked about Mark Cavendish cyclists, but interestingly, the catalyst for this episode today was a question I received from an athlete that I coach. I got it last week, and it was born out of a question, actually originating from his viewing of the Olympic swimming trials, which, of course, are coming up very, very soon. So I'm going to read out the question, and it will give you some context as to why I decided to build this show today. The question is this: I was watching the Olympic swimming trials and was awed by some of the returning athletes who are making their second or third Olympic Games, and it made me think about the mindset of a winner. They seem to be so tough and seemingly calm, and there are so many stories embedded in the navigation of this year's trials around comebacks. Is there anything that we mere mortals can learn from and apply to our lives? Well, it turns out there is; you don't need to be an elite athlete to draw from their approach or the traits of their mindset. The question is so compelling that I decided to build all of today's show around it. So let's get to it. We're going to break it up into a couple of parts here. But first, in part one, we want to talk about sustained high performance, and specifically high performance. I'm sure, as a listener, we can all share a common set of aspirations. If you want to call it that, I assume that we want to feel good; we want to be able to give our best every day to the things that are most important to us. And of course, we hope for great staying power, resilience, and and the ability to handle anything that is thrown our way along the journey. Consider this: when you feel good, you get better, and when you put your energy into the most valuable aspects of success, you're going to yield bigger results. And when you can stay the course and handle any setbacks or unexpected stressors, you're going to be equipped for long-term success. And for me, this is sustained high performance. Imagine that you have this every day. You bring it every day. Great traits, great energy, and bringing your best. But now imagine being on a team where every member of that team has this and brings it every single day. I can only imagine what that would do to productivity, output, and results. For me, this is sustained high performance. I've worked with many of the world's elite Ironman athletes; I also work with leading executives and major organizations, and the pattern that I've observed is that the highest performers, the folks with staying power and longevity that go on to create greatness, display a common set of traits and characteristics that make up a high-performance mindset. It's no wonder that I used to say Coach the pros like CEOs and the CEOs like pros.
Matt Dixon 06:56
So these traits include various things. Let me just run them off quickly. Number one is grit and resilience. Number two, driven by purpose, really understands why. Number three, they always have a passion for the process. They tend to be more process-driven than outcome-driven. They have a quest to drive a reduction of the complex into something simple and actionable, focusing their energy and prioritizing the actions on the important stuff that's going to drive results. Universally, they tend to be coachable. They have high adaptability and resilience. They develop a positive relationship with stress and pressure. Realizing that that is necessary—a privilege almost—something that is going to drive them to growth. They also have a great T-shaped perspective, as I like to call it. In other words, a keen ability to come out of the day-to-day weeds and come up for perspective as well as reflection. What have they done well? Where do they need to improve? And universally, they value mechanisms of support and accountability, often thriving within a team mindset. So these are all things that I'm sure you've heard before and could perhaps identify with. But if we pause and consider that list, if you can develop and hone these traits, surely you're equipped for a performance journey, no matter where you're placing your energy, no matter what is important to you—athletics or anything else in the world. In other words, these are a toolkit a way to maximize what you bring to the table: your intelligence, your physical gifts, and your commitment and work ethic toward that goal or journey. Now, world-class athletes develop these traits, and they're fundamental to anyone becoming a champion. Leading executives hone and develop these traits, and they end up being critical to becoming highly effective leaders. But we shouldn't just shine the light on the brain and the mindset. We also, I think, do not need to forget the physical part of this. And these traits are, of course, fundamental to the equation. But over the last 20+ years of coaching high performers, I've observed that it's impossible to consistently put these traits into action if you exist in a world of suppressed energy, health, and lethargy. So unless you can bring your best physical self, you're going to be ill-equipped to maximize these critical traits consistently and predictably. So what do I mean by putting this into action?
Matt Dixon 09:55
Well, let's think about athletes for a second. If you are, They overtrained. In other words, you're working very, very hard; you're extremely fit, but you're existing in a fog of fatigue. You can't bring many of these traits into action because your body is just suppressed. Now, I'm not sure whether it was General Patton or Vince Lombardi, but the quote that you might have heard, fatigue makes cowards of us, all that bubbles up to the surface when we think about this. If you're tired, chronically tired, whether it's from too much training or a lack of recovery, whatever it is, you might be fit as an athlete, but you're not fresh, and that severely limits your ability to bring the necessary traits, the elite mindset, to help you go on to be a champion. Now let's say that's the athletes, but now let's talk about the business professionals. So if you're trying to bring your best to the workplace, well, you might be really tough and committed. You might be willing to do what is ever necessary, pulling all-nighters so that you get the job done and can fulfill your role to the max. And there's a lot of people who will put a lot of stuff aside to get to the goal in business. Ultimately, what I see is that if you fail to prioritize your health and well-being and decide not to prioritize and consistently commit to some of the key habits and processes that go through to help process stress, such as movement, proper sleep, and quality eating, and you are too walking around in suppressed health, or at least a fog of fatigue, it will undoubtedly, and all research shows it, suppress your ability to deploy these same traits. In other words, your energy will be lower, your cognitive function will be compromised, and whether you are aware of it or not, you will be battling your body relative to what you could potentially feel like. So, in other words, to hone, improve, and develop these key traits that make up an elite mindset, I believe that first, all of us, no matter where we are trying to show up in life, need to build a platform of physical readiness. And so while today's show is yes, shining the light on these elite traits, we need to remember that they are in lockstep with your physical wellbeing, a performance-based layer, as I like to call it. You cannot unlock and separate them. You can't have one without the other. And so in part two, we're going to dig into these traits a little bit and understand how they're developed and how they're important across all aspects of performance. But first, let's talk about the tri-squad a little bit.
Matt Dixon 12:54
Yes, the Purple Patch tri squad. It is so much more than just a simple training plan. This is a triathlon program designed from the ground up, specifically for time-starved athletes like you, and added to that, it is a human coaching program with a proven methodology that has delivered multiple amateur world champions, more than 1500 qualifiers, world championship events, countless PRs, and an unimaginable amount of first-time finishes. It is a program that integrates into your life. It's going to help you get faster, and that's great, but it's also going to super-fuel your performance across all other aspects of life. I promise you that this can transform your performance. All you need to do is email us at info@purplepatchfitness.com, set up a complimentary call, and then you can be on the program within minutes. And if you don't like it, we think you will, but if you don't for any reason, we'll refund your money within the first 30 days. It's pretty good. Let's get on with it. I'd love to invite you into the gang. All right, let's get on with the show.
Matt Dixon 14:03
Yes, welcome to Part 2. We're going to dig into some of the traits of excellence and high performance. When I coach a high performer across any arena, a part of my role is to unpack many of the traits that are necessary for a high-performance mindset, and then I need to set up the journey and establish the conditions so that I can educate and teach them. I can help foster, hone, and develop them within the athlete or high performer across any other aspect of life and guide that person towards awareness so that they can deploy and action these traits when required, and they're going to get that development mostly through experiential learning, in other words, through their performance journey that becomes a wonderful arena, that we go through experiences where they pop up, that they're forced to deploy them, and they start to understand their context. Now let's first remind ourselves of those traits. You commit to a goal; perhaps you register for a big event; or you decide that you're going to transform your health and well-being, and you embark on the journey. What's going to drive your success? Okay, you're tough, you're committed, you've got a work ethic, you've laid down the marker, you're existing in a framework, and you get going, but along that journey, what are some of the traits and characteristics that are going to help you ultimately drive to success? Well, I mentioned it earlier in the show. Pretty simple: grit and resilience, driven by purpose, a passion for the process, and a drive to reduce complexity, so that you prioritize the things that are going to yield results. Great coach, ability, highly adaptable and resilient, a positive relationship with stress, not wilting or running away from it, but building a relationship of understanding that is necessary for you to grow and improve. That perspective, that's so important; pausing periodically to reflect. What am I doing well? How do I need to correct the correct course?? Where do I need to involve things that are not going quite so well? And of course, finally, existing within a team environment where you have mechanisms of great support and accountability. These are traits. These are characteristics. Consider an elite athlete. Remember that the way that these traits developed was through their journey in sport? Let me ask you a question to put this into context: why do you think it is that so many companies and organizations love to hire ex-professional athletes? I tell you what, it's probably not because of their nice bodies. I think the reason is that the hiring team in that organization kind of knows what they're getting. They know that they'll be adding someone to their team—someone who knows buys into and can showcase what commitment looks like. They know that they're going to be full of grit and that they're probably pretty good at collaboration. They're able to communicate well. They're highly adaptable and resilient. They're able to thrive under pressure, and they're going to have staying power for the journey. They're certainly goal-driven. And if you think about it and pause for a second, that sounds like a pretty great team member, doesn't it? Someone's going to be right there by your side. But here's the news: here's where it gets really interesting for me: these traits and characteristics aren't genetic. They're not innate. They can be learned, developed, coached, even, and that's really good news for me. That reeks of opportunity. It does because this example here of an athlete who retires and then gets hired into an organization showcases a couple of things. Number one: firstly, you can hone and develop these very same traits. They're not reserved for elite athletes; if they're not genetic and they're not innate, then they can be developed. And that's different. If I take an elite athlete and we look at their VO2 Max, a measure of their max or ability to uptake and utilize oxygen, Well, there is a genetic component. Not all of us are designed and built with lungs the size of a rhinoceros, but some elite athletes are. It's not an equal playing field, but these traits can be developed. And so, that's good news for us. But on top of that, as well, my example of taking a world-class athlete and the employer hiring them because they know that they're going to get these traits also showcases something else, and that's that these traits are transferable. You can hone and develop them in one arena, but you can apply them to any aspect of your life. Let me give an example of this. I've talked about this before, but purple patches Sarah Piampiano built a decade-long highly successful professional triathlon career. She won multiple Ironman races and coming into the sport amongst the thin air of world-class performance, she wasn't the most genetically gifted athlete. She didn't have huge physiological traits, but she made up for those limitations via her mindset and her approach, she honed and developed these traits, and she became a champion, and then she retired at the age of 40. What the heck is she going to do next? Well, she decided to go into real estate, and it was an industry in which she had exactly zero experience and no background whatsoever, and it only took her two years to develop her own thriving business. All it was was a simple application of the very same traits that drove her to great elite results in sport, just applied in a different setting. In other words, the brain never knows what context it is in, and that's really good news. So our question now is, what is the best path for you to take action and develop these traits for yourself? We're going to get to that in part three.
Matt Dixon 20:43
So if you're committed to something, you can follow a training plan, and guess what? It might prepare you physically, super duper. It might even be one of those magical AI plans. But let me ask you a question: how do you maximize the odds of showing up and enjoying a breakthrough performance? That's not going to emerge just from a training plan. That emerges by taking a broader perspective on performance and taking a human approach to your readiness. When you become a Purple Patch athlete, you have a whole team of coaches and experts who have your back, and that includes me. You've also got a global team of like-minded athletes that are going to maximize your support, your fun, and even a healthy dose of accountability, and you get guided and coached not just across the right training sessions for you but also around mindset, race strategy, fueling, hydration, recovery, and so much more. And I believe this is the superpower. It goes well beyond the training plan. It's a program, and the good news is that it is tailored and designed from the ground up for athletes like you, and that's why I believe that we've led more than 1500 athletes to world championship events. And so, I invite you to become part of the team and transform your performance. Three steps: Number one, reach out to us. At info@purplepatchfitness.com, we will set up an introductory call. Number two: choose the best program for your needs, and step three: get on the program within minutes. It's all about a risk-free approach. Remember, we have a 30-day money-back guarantee. All right, let's finish this up. It is part three.
Matt Dixon 22:29
Alright, let's finish the show today by talking about the path to developing some of these high-performance traits. I'm sure that you've read stories or articles about C-suite executives taking on some mammoth challenges. I remember, as a kid, Richard Branson. Yeah, that guy with Virgin famously tried to fly around the world in a hot-air balloon. Completely bonkers. Plenty of executives try to summit Everest or maybe complete Iron Man or some other big challenge. The question is, why, after all, are they already really busy? They've got massive demands at work, and quite often, they've got huge responsibilities with their families and friends, maybe some semblance of a social life. But the answer, of course, is layered on this. There is the joy of commitment and the pride of accomplishment, and we shouldn't relegate that to an afterthought. That's important. Okay, there's a little bit of ego and satisfaction around getting through the tough stuff that draws them because they're high performers, but the truth is that I think there's something a little bit more powerful than that, because, with these challenges that leaders tend to love to take on, they realize that by going on the journey, it helps them show up and perform better as leaders. The reward is a direct trend toward them becoming a better leader. In other words, it becomes a route for them to get an edge in the workplace. Think about it. It's like, how does that happen? In other words, aren't we just dumping another thing on top of an already overcompressed life? But the truth is that when I see someone take on a big, hairy, audacious goal—something that's a little uncomfortable—it certainly gets them out of their comfort zone. Requires a lot of commitment and preparation. It's often a forcing agent. It's an amazing opportunity to create the framework that drives operational efficiency. In other words, the leader is forced into a whole bunch of decision-making, filtering out only the important stuff and allowing their energy to go into it. In other words, they force optimization, prioritization, and effectiveness. What do they say? If you want something done, give it to a busy person. Now, in addition to this, though it's not just a great operational efficiency mechanism, there's also the necessary preparation, and typically the goal-driven leaders that I work with often take on challenges that have a huge physical component, and the required preparation that goes into arriving and being successful at that goal trends positive in helping that leader show up on a day-to-day basis with better health, improved energy, better cognitive function, and certainly increased physical resiliency and staying power. In other words, the training, if we want to call it, that is necessary for completion and success, often drives their physical daily readiness, and that's a huge component. So suddenly, taking on this thing that at first might look like dumping something on top of life is a forcing agent for operational efficiency and bringing up cognitive function and energy so that they can bring out their best selves every single day. And that's great. But there's one other component that's also really powerful to this, and that's through the actual journey itself.
Matt Dixon 26:24
I always talk about the journey as the venue of the biggest reward, more than the actual destination, the goal, the event, whatever it might be. Imagine training for an Ironman. Let's just use that, because that's the one that's closest to my skill set. It's a huge challenge for anyone. It is probably the most demanding single-day endurance challenge out there. And so for anyone to be successful at that, particularly if you're time-starved, you're going to need to be organized and committed. It's going to require some toughness and grit. You're going to need to filter out some of the distractions and the things that create noise. So in other words, you're going to need to prioritize, and you typically are going to benefit if you've got someone in partnership—a coach—to help you retain perspective, reflect, make decisions, help your course correct, and organize all of those components. And even with all that in place, the journey is simply going to include a whole bunch of setbacks, adversity, and obstacles. And that leader who's decided to take on this challenge is going to have to overcome them. They're going to have to get through these; they're going to have to be adaptable and look for different routes. They're going to have to learn how to manage the setbacks. They're going to need some grit when the going gets tough. In other words, that journey is training the brain. That's what's occurring there. Remember what we talked about in Part Two? Organizations love to hire elite athletes because they know they're going to get someone who is adaptable, resilient, gritful, tough, and able to collaborate. And so, in other words, this journey provides the vehicle to train the brain. In other words, hone, improve, and develop the traits of high performance. And it is through this journey that these traits continue to emerge. They improve. And of course, as I talked about in Part 2, these traits are easily applicable to their roles at work. In other words, it helps them become better leaders, leading to greater performance at work. In other words, taking on these challenges, this very big challenge ends up not being a question of, how they fit it all in, but instead becomes the catalyst of being the vehicle to drive (A), both improved organizational effectiveness and (B) greater physical performance in every single day there, so that they can show up better, process information, bake, make better decisions, and have the capacity to respond to external forces, and, thirdly, drive and improve the traits of high performance, which you could say are the traits of great leadership. Now it takes time. It's not a light switch. Just because you enter a big event or something like that, it doesn't mean that it's just going to happen; it does emerge and evolve.
Matt Dixon 29:51
Now, if that's why a leader does this, just like I talked about earlier with an elite athlete, here's the good news: you don't need to be a CEO to apply these principles to your performance. You don't need to decide to try and fly a balloon around the world. You don't need to be an Iron Man. You certainly don't need to climb Everest. But all of us, no matter what our purpose is or where we're seeking to improve, benefit from taking on a big challenge. We all do. Now, what that challenge is depends on where your start line is, because it's important to have a challenge that is a little scary and daunting, requires commitment so that you can adhere to the practices and the steps to get you there, but is also ultimately accessible. And so it's no good for me if I'm currently completely sedentary and say I'm going to do Ironman because that is just like trying to climb up to the top of Everest in one step. But I could do something challenging, that maybe is a reward if I arrive there, but that requires commitment. So it's important, as you listen to this, I believe, to consider where's your starting point and what is something that might sound fun and challenging, but goodness me, I'm not sure if I can do that. Then you've got something here. Because when you get out of your comfort zone, when you commit, when you decide, and when you take action, you take the very first steps on what will be a journey. I promise you, you will grow. You will improve. Sport, or just a heavy emphasis on personal well-being, is, in my mind, the perfect vehicle to drive improvements, and it's going to foster the conditions and deliver the experiences that won't always be comfortable but will help you hone and develop the traits of a high-performance mindset, and I think that's how you should approach it. It is a vehicle for me that I'm going to take on with really pretty risk-free components that I'm going to feel better in and show up better in, and ultimately that's going to drive high performance. And so, coming back to the original question, remember, it was asked about those Olympic swimmers who seemed so calm and could step up to the occasion and navigate all of the adversity. Is there anything we can learn from that? Yes, there's nothing magical about it. There isn't. They've just gone through years of development, and you can too, because that mindset is a result of their journey and their experiences, and the good news is that it's accessible and applicable for all of us.
Matt Dixon 33:12
I want to finish today with a quote. It's from Pat, a CEO who I've coached for many years, and I think that his words encapsulate much of what I'm talking about today. He was at a point of reflection, and he decided to write me an email, unsolicited. I'm going to read out one section of it because it's, well, it's quite nice for me, but it also really tells a story. Here's what Pat said. He said, "I didn't anticipate the results when I first came to you for help. I was chasing improvements in my triathlon performance, but the process completely evolved how I operate as a leader. I established skills and habits that improved my effectiveness and my capacity to navigate stressful situations, and the process helped me retain perspective and focus when the going got tough. In other words, the journey of my sport increased my physical resilience, but also my mindset and brain received the best training possible, and it informs all I do in leadership and life." Goodness me. Thanks, folks. That is a high-performance mindset. I'll see you next time.
Matt Dixon 34:26
Guys, thanks so much for joining, and thank you for listening. I hope that you enjoyed the new format. You can never miss an episode by simply subscribing. Head to the Purple Patch channel on YouTube, and you will find it there, and you can subscribe. Of course, I'd like to ask you if you will subscribe and share it with your friends. It's really helpful if you leave a nice, positive review in the comments. Now, if you have any questions, let me know. Feel free to add a comment, and I will try my best to respond and support you on your performance journey. As we commence this video podcast experience, if you have any feedback at all, as mentioned earlier in the show, we would love your help in helping us to improve. Simply email us at info@purplepatchfitness.com, or leave it in the comments of the show on the purple patch page, and we will get you dialed in. We'd love constructive feedback. We are in a growth mindset, as we like to call it, so feel free to share with your friends. But as I said, let's build this together. Let's make it something special. It's really fun. We're trying hard to make it a special experience, and we want to welcome you into the Purple Patch community. With that, I hope you have a great week. Stay healthy and have fun. Keep smiling and doing whatever you do; take care.
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