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D 4 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q actually replicate the feeling of what it's like to be in space and truly feel that moment. In that moment, that is the first time Felix is ever going to feel that way, and hopefully the only time he'll ever feel that way. I mean, how do you sort of balance that sort of training, the simulation with the actual what happens, and also what went into the Stratus Jump?
A Well, I think you, you, you spot on. You can't, no matter how close it is, you know, we, the person who's involved or the individual always knows it's a replica or it's an, uh, you're trying to create a scenario to practice for it. So you can't create the feeling of what it's like going to be like this Sunday to be at the starting lineup on the Superbowl. So what we do is we use these other scenarios. We pull you out of what you're good at. We pull you into other spaces. It may be standup comedy. It may be, it may be holding your breath. And that doesn't really matter because you, You, for the first part, you, you detach from what you're good at. So you kind of relax a little bit more. There's no, hopefully no ego involved. And you also are in a situation we have to learn from the beginning. So it sort of accelerates whatever, ah, the real you under pressure would look like. We get to see what you're really like, not what you sort of hope to look like under stress. And then we train you with tools. We give you tools and, and techniques to get through that. And then the transfer is very powerful. And we see over and over again, if we try and fake a real scenario, they know it's fake, it doesn't work. If we create a stressful scenario where, like stand-up comedy, where they have probably never done it before, they have to stand up in a room and make everyone laugh, they've got to…
AI assessment note: “if we try and fake a real scenario, they know it's fake, it doesn't work”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q actually replicate the feeling of what it's like to be in space and truly feel that moment. In that moment, that is the first time Felix is ever going to feel that way, and hopefully the only time he'll ever feel that way. I mean, how do you sort of balance that sort of training, the simulation with the actual what happens, and also what went into the Stratus Jump?
A Well, I think you, you, you spot on. You can't, no matter how close it is, you know, we, the person who's involved or the individual always knows it's a replica or it's an, uh, you're trying to create a scenario to practice for it. So you can't create the feeling of what it's like going to be like this Sunday to be at the starting lineup on the Superbowl. So what we do is we use these other scenarios. We pull you out of what you're good at. We pull you into other spaces. It may be standup comedy. It may be, it may be holding your breath. And that doesn't really matter because you, You, for the first part, you, you detach from what you're good at. So you kind of relax a little bit more. There's no, hopefully no ego involved. And you also are in a situation we have to learn from the beginning. So it sort of accelerates whatever, ah, the real you under pressure would look like. We get to see what you're really like, not what you sort of hope to look like under stress. And then we train you with tools. We give you tools and, and techniques to get through that. And then the transfer is very powerful. And we see over and over again, if we try and fake a real scenario, they know it's fake, it doesn't work. If we create a stressful scenario where, like stand-up comedy, where they have probably never done it before, they have to stand up in a room and make everyone laugh, they've got to…
AI assessment note: “So what we do is we use these other scenarios. We pull you out”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.15
Q Is there a, is there a trend here where you can also make what you guys described earlier as individualized things that are highly customized to each individual, because it's a very one-on-one type of sport, and sort of mass personalize it? Because that's always been the holy grail for education, for example, to be able to reach mass personalization of things. Is that something that's on the cards?
A Well, we could, yeah, we talk about it all the time, because I think this, as John pointed out, this democratization of the talent, sharing these lessons in a broader, uh, Uh, uh, platform so that everyone has access to it, and that's the one way. We also see it happening the other way. At the end of the day, the individual approach to top performers is what's going to be open up to everybody in the next few years, and you see these trends in individualized health and medicine. Back to the point Jordan made, the data is going to be personalized to you, so what was once the only, you know, in the, in the realm of elite talent because of the cost and, and the sort of access to the people who could do it, Is going to become part of the everyday person's experience, and it's, it's the trend which is happening, so that's why I think it's, it's a two-way platform.
AI assessment note: “the individual approach to top performers is what's going to be open up to everybody”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.90
Q Is there a, is there a trend here where you can also make what you guys described earlier as individualized things that are highly customized to each individual, because it's a very one-on-one type of sport, and sort of mass personalize it? Because that's always been the holy grail for education, for example, to be able to reach mass personalization of things. Is that something that's on the cards?
A Well, we could, yeah, we talk about it all the time, because I think this, as John pointed out, this democratization of the talent, sharing these lessons in a broader, uh, Uh, uh, platform so that everyone has access to it, and that's the one way. We also see it happening the other way. At the end of the day, the individual approach to top performers is what's going to be open up to everybody in the next few years, and you see these trends in individualized health and medicine. Back to the point Jordan made, the data is going to be personalized to you, so what was once the only, you know, in the, in the realm of elite talent because of the cost and, and the sort of access to the people who could do it, Is going to become part of the everyday person's experience, and it's, it's the trend which is happening, so that's why I think it's, it's a two-way platform.
AI assessment note: “the individual approach to top performers is what's going to be open up to everybody”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.60
Q ran an op-ed a few years ago from Kevin Morris arguing that it is in fact a sport, because it has all the attributes of any other sport. It just happens to be people playing computer games. How does the rules of what you've learned in physical performance science How does it sort of apply to something like eSports? Are you noticing any interesting trends there? Um, changes or differences?
A It's the classic model, like I said before, we learn from every talent we work with, kind of talent we work with, and, and again, when you watch these young performers in, in the esports community do what they do at the, at the very top of the game, it's staggering. You know, you just have to stand behind them and watch the number of moves they're making, the number of decisions they're making, and a lot of similarities to, you know, traditional sports. You know, you make a mistake, you've got to recover, you can't hang on to that, you've, and if you do, you're going to get beaten. You've got to deal with a lot of differentiations and stimuli. You've got to bring a lot of information in to make quick decisions, so.
AI assessment note: “a lot of similarities to, you know, traditional sports”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.60
Q ran an op-ed a few years ago from Kevin Morris arguing that it is in fact a sport, because it has all the attributes of any other sport. It just happens to be people playing computer games. How does the rules of what you've learned in physical performance science How does it sort of apply to something like eSports? Are you noticing any interesting trends there? Um, changes or differences?
A It's the classic model, like I said before, we learn from every talent we work with, kind of talent we work with, and, and again, when you watch these young performers in, in the esports community do what they do at the, at the very top of the game, it's staggering. You know, you just have to stand behind them and watch the number of moves they're making, the number of decisions they're making, and a lot of similarities to, you know, traditional sports. You know, you make a mistake, you've got to recover, you can't hang on to that, you've, and if you do, you're going to get beaten. You've got to deal with a lot of differentiations and stimuli. You've got to bring a lot of information in to make quick decisions, so.
AI assessment note: “and a lot of similarities to, you know, traditional sports.”
Partly raw tape
D 3 · C 3 · P 3 · Cm 2 2.85
Q Interesting. Why does humility matter? I would think that being on the field, you have to be competitive and aggressive and not necessarily humble.
A You know, if you talk to a lot of the greats over the years, you, you, you see they're, they're very self-aware and very comfortable in who they are. They don't need to espouse their talents. They're, you know, they, they have a, they have a very distinct humility to them. I'm not saying these are the, there's a right or wrong combination either. I think resiliency you brought up is a common term right now, the ability to get back up. That may manifest itself in some of the conversations. Have you failed before? Sometimes we have this saying, you know, a talent is a curse because if you come to us as the best in class over, you've been that rising star, the shooting star for your entire career. And you come to us, we know at some point you're going to get beaten. And if you've never been beaten badly and until you're right at the top, we don't know how you're going to unpack at that point. And it could be a, it could be a quick spiral down. So I know there's a lot of work being done on sort of successful businesses have had two or three prior unsuccessful businesses in play. And there's a lot of conversations around that. And we, we ask about that. We ask what's been the toughest thing you've ever faced and how'd you overcome it? So we get into courage as well and your ability to want to take risk, but more your ability to understand risk. So those general things are really pow…
AI assessment note: “they're very self-aware and very comfortable in who they are. They don't need to espouse”
Redirected raw tape
D 2 · C 3 · P 3 · Cm 2 2.55
Q Interesting. Why does humility matter? I would think that being on the field, you have to be competitive and aggressive and not necessarily humble.
A You know, if you talk to a lot of the greats over the years, you, you, you see they're, they're very self-aware and very comfortable in who they are. They don't need to espouse their talents. They're, you know, they, they have a, they have a very distinct humility to them. I'm not saying these are the, there's a right or wrong combination either. I think resiliency you brought up is a common term right now, the ability to get back up. That may manifest itself in some of the conversations. Have you failed before? Sometimes we have this saying, you know, a talent is a curse because if you come to us as the best in class over, you've been that rising star, the shooting star for your entire career. And you come to us, we know at some point you're going to get beaten. And if you've never been beaten badly and until you're right at the top, we don't know how you're going to unpack at that point. And it could be a, it could be a quick spiral down. So I know there's a lot of work being done on sort of successful businesses have had two or three prior unsuccessful businesses in play. And there's a lot of conversations around that. And we, we ask about that. We ask what's been the toughest thing you've ever faced and how'd you overcome it? So we get into courage as well and your ability to want to take risk, but more your ability to understand risk. So those general things are really pow…
AI assessment note: “I think resiliency you brought up is a common term right now”
Redirected raw tape
D 2 · C 3 · P 2 · Cm 2 2.30
Q didn't have any other choice. And that's not necessarily two of the top performing teams. Just like big companies, they're incented to keep the status quo and do what's working. They don't actually want to try out new things. So how do you see this playing out with people who are trying to, quote, disrupt themselves and try out new different things? How are they incented to actually embrace it?
A Well, you know, speaking broadly, I think people now have a sense that you've got to keep, you know, innovating. You've got to keep pushing this edge now, and, and you can't be sitting back on, you know, what has, what has worked as much as we have in the past. I think it's just the natural pace of, of many of the industries we work in, and, uh, you know, I think we're seeing it, and I think, again, Jordan made another, that point on contextualizing it, putting it into the right context, and I may use the word culture interchangeably, but, Understanding what it really means and how it can be applied and used, and I think that's a big frontier for us to still crack. I mean, everyone's collecting a lot of stuff right now, especially in these fields, and we're collecting it in some cases, even ourselves, with the hope that in a couple of years we get good enough to understand it, so retroactively accessing it, so it's an interesting time.
AI assessment note: “speaking broadly, I think people now have a sense that you've got to keep”
Partly raw tape
D 2 · C 2 · P 2 · Cm 2 2.00
Q didn't have any other choice. And that's not necessarily two of the top performing teams. Just like big companies, they're incented to keep the status quo and do what's working. They don't actually want to try out new things. So how do you see this playing out with people who are trying to, quote, disrupt themselves and try out new different things? How are they incented to actually embrace it?
A Well, you know, speaking broadly, I think people now have a sense that you've got to keep, you know, innovating. You've got to keep pushing this edge now, and, and you can't be sitting back on, you know, what has, what has worked as much as we have in the past. I think it's just the natural pace of, of many of the industries we work in, and, uh, you know, I think we're seeing it, and I think, again, Jordan made another, that point on contextualizing it, putting it into the right context, and I may use the word culture interchangeably, but, Understanding what it really means and how it can be applied and used, and I think that's a big frontier for us to still crack. I mean, everyone's collecting a lot of stuff right now, especially in these fields, and we're collecting it in some cases, even ourselves, with the hope that in a couple of years we get good enough to understand it, so retroactively accessing it, so it's an interesting time.
AI assessment note: “people now have a sense that you've got to keep, you know, innovating”
