The following is curated content I hope you will find helpful in your journey to performing your best at home and work. Please leave comments for more suggestions, and I will update the page.

Lessons in the Peak Performance Series

1. What is Peak Performance?
2. Defining Flow and peak performance
3. Medicine’s Most Dangerous Myth
4. Do You Remember That Patient?
5. Out-Sleep the Competition – Sleep as a Peak Performance State
6. Out-Sleep the Competition – The 80/20 of Elite Sleep
7. Out-Sleep the Competition – Sleep Like a Shift Worker
8. Growth versus fixed mindset – in all your life
9. Becoming a burnout-proof medic
10. Sleep 101
11. The ultimate calendar
12. Saying No
13. Active recovery
14. Positive psychology basics
15. Building your team (and relationships)
16. Peak Performance Fuel
17. Feedback loops
18. Body versus the mind
19. Mindfulness and Gratitude
20. Strengths and Invisible skills
21. Motivation and goals
22. Unlocking pristine clarity
23. Eliminating the unnecessary
24. Increasing productivity through leverage
25. Rush avoidance
26. Time myths
27. Optimisation through simplification
28. Controlling your autonomic nervous system
29. Antifragility and traumatic growth
30. The flow cycle
31. Flow triggers
32. Building grit
33. Eliminating distraction
34. Overwhelm Assassination
35. The 1-day work month
36. VUCA – how to survive in chaos
37. End procrastination
38. Gamifying work and life
39. Wake up and flow
40. Preventing self-sabotage
41. The Dark Side of Flow

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Courses

Work in progress…

• The course that started it all was from the Flow Research Collective Z2D; it is currently on pause as the company is focusing on research.
• Created by Steven Kotler and Rian Doris, the men behind everything I know in this series and the modern-day polymaths on flow science.
• Please contact me in the comments section with your email, and I will collate a list of interested participants while I find a course worth attending. Honestly, Z2D is the best course on flow science I have been on, and worth every dollar. There are many others out there that are not. Hopefully it’ll be reborn like the phoenix soon.

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Books

• Mastery by George Leonard
• The Breakout Principle: How to Activate the Natural Trigger That Maximizes Creativity, Athletic Performance, Productivity and Personal Well-Being By Herbert Benson
• Group Genius by Keith Sawyer 
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Rise of Superman By Steven Kotler
• Stealing Fire By Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal
• The Art of Impossible – A Peak Performance Primer By Steven Kotler

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Podcasts/Lectures

• Andrew Huberman – explores the neuroscience of sleep, optimising learning, motivation to name a few.
• Finding Mastery – Dr Michael Gervais – is a high performance psychologist working with the NHL, Fortune 50 CEOs and Olympic medalists, learn from the best.
• Flow radio – the Flow Research Collective podcast
• Stimulus – who doesn’t know and love Rob Orman? Previously an EMRAP presenter, now offering his soothing tones and poignant questions for our benefit. He also offers personal coaching sessions.
• The Mind Full Medic Podcast – Dr Cheryl Martin explores health, wellbeing, optimal performance and professional fulfilment
• The Tim Ferriss Show – a self-experimenter and bestselling author, best known for The 4-Hour Workweek. Weekly interviews with peak performers.
• Robert Sapolsky lecture series (Stanford) – Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky gives an amazing course entitled Human Behavioural Biology.

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Apps

• Brain.fm: scientifically proven music to improve concentration
• Headspace: With one mission, to improve the health and happiness of the world
• 5 minute Journal: Make your daily gratitude practice habit
• Smiling Mind: a not-for-profit web and app-based meditation program developed by psychologists and educators to help bring mindfulness into your life.
• Waking Up: Sam Harris holds a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and is a Five-time New York Bestseller. He guides us through his journey of meditation, moral philosophy and rationality so we can gain a better understanding of ourselves. It’s a costly app but well worth diving into at least once; I usually switch between a yearly subscription of headspace and waking up.
• Way of Life: Start gamifying the habits you want to form in your life.
• Wim Hoff Method: Have you heard of the ICE MAN? – check this guy out and start your daily practice of cold showers.

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Websites

• WRaP EM is a group of ordinary but passionate clinicians and medical educators who want to promote the concepts of Wellness, Resilience and Performance, from being considered “the soft stuff” to becoming a core part of Emergency Medicine practice.
• ACEM Wellness Week: One of ACEM’s strategic priorities is to develop, support and implement wellbeing initiatives that contribute to the wellbeing of doctors and other health professionals delivering emergency medical care.

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LITFL posts

• SMILE2: Better Healthcare Mind improvement in healthcare
• LITFL mindfulness series with A/Prof Andrew Dean MBBS FACEM. New and innovative teaching methods for emergency medicine education; mindfulness meditation, and the nurturing of emotionally intelligent clinical teams in health care.