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Walshe: Unbroken Talent Is a Curse Because Performers Lack Proven Resilience
“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 unt…”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 35:30 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
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Walshe: Simulating Domain-Specific Stress Fails Because Subjects Know It Is Fake
“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 real…”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:47 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
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Walsh: High-performance training tech develops through a two-way consumer funnel
“Those consumer-driven needs are actually helping us create simple systems that we can then employ back up the chain. So it's always this two-way funnel.”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:36 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
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Walsh: Copying competitors keeps you behind and ignores culture
“Even if you copied everything you were doing, you're one, you're copying us, which means you're behind us, which is a great thing. And two, but our culture has figured these things out this way. You're going to have to figure out how it applies in your culture…”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:27 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
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Andy Walsh: Ancillary Learnings From Moonshots Deliver the Most Value
“It's sort of the things you learn ancillary to the final objective that seem to have the most value, and for us, the great takeaways were this sort of idea that training for these times, training for the unknown, preparing people to deal with that moment when …”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 38:11 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
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Walshe: Four-Minute Box Breathing Four Times Daily Reduces Stress Within Weeks
“And you sort of say, okay, breathing's a powerful tool, and it's actually been proven to reduce the stress. And if you learn it's very simple, four seconds in, four seconds out, four times a day, four minutes at a time, that will have an impact over a couple o…”
Andy Walsh Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:49 a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
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