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The Mindset Blueprint: How Elite Performers Engineer Excellence

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Discover how top performers use identity-based habits, deliberate practice, and dopamine engineering to achieve mastery. Drawing from James Clear's Atomic Habits, Carol Dweck's growth mindset research, and Andrew Huberman's neuroscience, this episode reveals the counterintuitive mindset shifts that make excellence look effortless.

The Mindset Blueprint: How Elite Performers Engineer Excellence
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The Little Book of Talent
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/the-little-book-of-talent-by-daniel-coyle
Does Mental Practice Enhance Performance? (meta-analysis)
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228118007_Does_Mental_Practice_Enhance_Performance
Peak Mind
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/peak-mind-by-amishi-jha
Peak Performance
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/peak-performance-by-brad-stulberg
A National Experiment Reveals Where a Growth Mindset Improves Achievement
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https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/national-experiment-reveals-where-growth-mindset-improves-achievement
Pete Carroll takes part in Finding Mastery live
link
https://www.seahawks.com/news/pete-carroll-takes-part-in-finding-mastery-podcast-with-compete-to-create-co-fou
How are habits formed? Modelling habit formation in the real world
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.674
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36303871.Why_We_Sleep
The power of believing that you can improve
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https://www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of_believing_that_you_can_improve
Much Ado About Grit: A Meta-Analytic Synthesis of the Grit Literature
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27845531/
The role of deliberate practice in expert performance: revisiting Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-Römer (1993)
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.190327
Grit: The power of passion and perseverance
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https://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_grit_the_power_of_passion_and_perseverance
How to Increase Motivation & Drive
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https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/how-to-increase-motivation-and-drive
A simple way to break a bad habit
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https://www.ted.com/talks/judson_brewer_a_simple_way_to_break_a_bad_habit
Atomic Habits
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/atomic-habits-by-james-clear
The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain — Modern Wisdom #700
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https://dexa.ai/modernwisdom/d/626ac0e8-7740-11ee-8a6c-17c97084a67d
How to make stress your friend
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https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend
Finding Mastery Podcast
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https://findingmastery.com/podcasts/
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/mindset-by-carol-dweck
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/make-it-stick-by-peter-c-brown
The Carroll Culture: ‘He focuses on your purpose beyond the game’
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https://www.seahawks.com/news/the-carroll-culture-he-focuses-on-your-purpose-beyond-the-game-166611
A Neural Substrate of Prediction and Reward
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https://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~dayan/papers/sdm97.html
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69795891-deep-work
The Art of Learning
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/the-art-of-learning-by-josh-waitzkin
The Science of Setting & Achieving Goals
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https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/the-science-of-setting-and-achieving-goals
Digital Minimalism
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/digital-minimalism-by-cal-newport
A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Short-Term Sleep Deprivation on Cognitive Variables
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3290659/
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