Learned Excellence

Mental Disciplines for Leading and Winning from the World’s Top Performers

By: Eric Potterat, Alan Eagle

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

Learn how to perform at your very best, from the psychologist who has advised elite military operators, Olympic medalists, big wave surfers, neurosurgeons, cliff divers, first responders, Cirque du Soleil acrobats, professional athletes and coaches, Fortune 500 business executives, and CIA analysts.

Learned Excellence is a comprehensive and practical guide to the mental disciplines of high performance, from the expert who developed the US Navy SEALs mental toughness curriculum and has worked with thousands of top athletes, elite military personnel, business executives, and first responders.

These stars perform across a wide variety of fields, but they all have something in common: when they are at work they know how to think clearly, stay focused, and shrug off setbacks under very high levels of stress. They may have superb physical and intellectual traits, but it is the stuff going on above the neck and between the ears that makes them excellent. The difference between settling and achieving, between good and great, between contentment and fulfillment, is based entirely on their mental approach.

This approach isn’t innate; it is 100% learned. The world’s top performers aren’t born that way, they learn excellence. So can everyone else, and Dr. Eric Potterat can teach us.

One of the world’s leading performance psychologists and a retired US Navy Commander, Dr. Potterat has spent over three decades helping thousands of top performers from the military, sports, first responder, and business worlds improve. He served as the lead psychologist for the US Navy SEALs and the Los Angeles Dodgers, and has consulted with the US Women’s National Soccer team, the Miami Heat, Red Bull athletes, NASA astronauts, and dozens of Olympic medalists.

In Learned Excellence, Eric distills the insights he’s learned into five mental disciplines for high performance—Values & Goals, Mindset, Process, Adversity Tolerance, and Balance & Recovery. Illustrated with numerous stories and quotes, Learned Excellence features clear principles and practices that anyone can use to raise their game.

We are all performers, at work, at school, at home, and at life. Learned Excellence provides the roadmap to help each of us perform at our very best.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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©2024 Eric Potterat and Alan Eagle (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers

What elite in their field do to succeed.

Storytelling was before written word, and connects with the brain most easily, just ask a psychologist. A world class elite one in Dr. Eric Potterat certainly has a unique perspective that he shares through a volume of storytelling.

This volume spans across all types of people, fields, roles, passions, hobbies, and life.

Where strategy meets execution—this volume offers the strategy architecture to construct your own, but also offers examples of elite stories in the execution of strategy. It even provides an end of each chapter guide to leverage in your efforts.

While I personally believe in and align my life, work, and values to similar contents of this volume, Dr. Potterat’s process and habits to revisit, reassess, learn, and ultimately grow are easy to consume while practical in applications.

I recommend this volume to all of my network, family and friend friends. Since digesting it, I transferred its value to the minds of many of them with their own copy. Thank you Alan and Eric!

Inspiring listen

Easy to follow, practical, step-by-step direction to be your best in all aspects of life. Examples of how top athletes, performers, military personnel and business leaders instilled these practices in their everyday efforts make this relatable, and achievable. Idea for anyone interested in building better habits!

Motivating with great real life examples

Engaging, stories about real accomplished well known people, the Navy Seal training has always fascinated me, learning about how the mind works and ability to Learn Excellence and that you are not born with it is a huge advantage to understand

Simplifying what can seem impossible to understand

This book helped me make the right changes in my life without changing who I was and wanted to become - it helped me to define what did make me happy and help build those areas of my life out to be much greater. Great insights from high performers and tried processes for anyone who wants to better underatand themselves and how to handle the harsh realities of life on earth with a sense of comfort and pride. Thank yoU!

Loved - Efficiently describes steps to be Excellent

Eric through Alan put together a master class on developing or enhancing your ability to be excellent. If you need a quick leadership level up or simply want to change your normal then read this book. It does more than inspire but lays out quickly habits and techniques to give you the opportunity to go from ineffective to excellent to exemplary.