Mastering the Performance Mindset
The Performance Paradox explores how focusing solely on performing can hinder improvement, with examples ranging from medical professionals to chess players. Eduardo Briceño emphasizes the need to integrate learning into daily work, blending performance with improvement for better outcomes.
Eduardo Briceño writes for Next Big Idea Club
This is what is referred to as the performance paradox. It is what most of us are doing almost all of the time—we’re focused on performing. To understand this paradox, it helps us to step out of our everyday context and examine how the greatest performers in the world, in domains where performance can be objectively measured, come to get so good at what they do.
His insights offer practical strategies for overcoming stagnation and achieving excellence.