EPISODE 41
ACCELERATING EXCELLENCE
PEAK PERFORMANCE EXPERT, JAMES A. KING
Unlock the secrets to achieving excellence and performing at your peak under pressure 🔥🚀
In this explosive episode, elite performance expert, James A. King reveals the three crucial principles that separates champions from average Joes.
James lifts the lid on the psychology tricks used by the world’s best athletes to feel invincible and shares the science behind developing mental structures that allow you to perform on autopilot under intense stress.
In this episode of the Off Script podcast you’ll discover:
How to identify your true strengths and pursue goals that are perfectly aligned with who you are.
Why you choke when the stakes are highest and how to inoculate yourself against failure.
Why certain people excel while others stay stuck - and how to join the elite.
Don’t miss the chance to get a glimpse into the minds of winners! 🤩
Tune in now 🎧🎙️
LINKS & REFERENCES
James King
https://www.instagram.com/jamesaking_/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/acceleratingexcellence/
Accelerating Excellence Book
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
“I believe one of the worst things that have happened to English football, was winning the world cup in 1966. Why? Because it put this fear of loss in the whole nation ever since, the expectation that everyone puts on that team, the media, the public, is that if you don't win a World Cup from now, as a World Cup winner, you're a failure.”
James A. King - 1:38:32
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“I'm on an RAF base with these top US Air Force & World Air Force [soldiers] hanging around with the lads feeling mega grown up, and I'm on a runway watching phantom’s and tornadoes launch into the sky. And then the pilots are getting out and being like, “Oh, hi, James, you want to jump in?” I'm sat in the cockpit thinking “This is so fucking cool”. - James A. King - 11:15
I kept thinking why is he the strongest? I think that's my earliest memory of this question and it's probably dictated how I've spent the rest of my life today; this question around why do some people excel at the absolute upper limit of human potential? And why do others not? And are these factors controllable? - James A. King - 13.40
“Strengths are effectively your baseline ability, and your responsiveness to training. If you and I are pursuing the same goal, and we have the same baseline ability, but you're more responsive to training to me, then for every hour of practice, you have two breakthrough moments, and I have one, six months from now, you're gonna be so far ahead of me, I'm never catching you up, no matter how ambitious I am, or how hard I try.” - James A. King - 34:43
Biomechanically, some of us are more gifted than others. I was told that biomechanically my feet aren't very good for running, but I really enjoy running, so no, I’m not going to do really well, but I just enjoy running. So biomechanically, you're set up a certain way, physiologically can either of these be trained to break that mould or is it the fact that you're set that way? - Ty Temel - 36:44
“When you see Harry Kane send a penalty and not even hit the target, it’s not because he’s forgotten how to take penalties. It's because he's assessed the situation through his senses. He's perceived some threat such as the cameras or the crowd…and it sends you in here, and you block your critical faculty barrier and you lose access to your skill, and you choke.” James A.King - 1:31:43