{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Cognitive Edge","title":"The Habits of High Performance: Mindfulness, Breath Work and Embracing Discomfort w Dr Jo Lukins","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3577,"description":"The Habits of High Performance: Mindfulness, Breath Work and Embracing Discomfort w Dr Jo Lukins\nIn this episode of Cognitive Edge, Dr Miah Hammond-Errey is joined by Dr Jo Lukins, a performance psychologist with more than 30 years of experience across elite sport, defence and corporate leadership. She is currently the mental skills coach for the Dolphins, the Queensland Women's State of Origin team and women's NBL referees. She has spent the past decade helping defence and corporate leaders perform under pressure. She is the author of 10 books, including The Elite and Belief: Building Unshakeable Confidence, and was named an Outstanding Alumni at James Cook University.\nThe conversation ranges across the foundations of cognitive performance, why habits are more reliable than motivation, and how elite performers manage discomfort, doubt and setbacks. Dr Jo Lukins unpacks the difference between judging performance by outcome versus process, using her recent experience coaching Queensland through a losing State of Origin series as a case study in what \"winning\" actually looks like. She also walks through practical, evidence-based tools, from breath work to gratitude practice to cognitive behavioural reframing. Finally, she closes with why imposter syndrome isn't real, and what to do instead with the doubt that is.\n\nChapters\n00:00 Introduction to Dr Jo Lukins and her background\n01:38 The foundational building blocks of cognitive health and performance\n04:04 What's most surprising about how elite performers actually think\n06:12 Where to start when improving cognitive performance\n08:07 What to track: the \"kind audit\" of your own performance\n10:45 Outcome vs process: why the scoreboard doesn't tell the whole story\n11:19 Lessons from coaching Queensland through a losing State of Origin series\n13:19 Embracing the suck: staying functional in discomfort\n16:15 How feelings, not thoughts, drive our behaviour\n18:43 Can discomfort tolerance be trained like a muscle?\n21:55...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3W3x14w4GoWZnNAYsXzYofKhAMdbfsDyjGR4X5VUBcM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xNjlm/ZDRkMDAxNjY5MDc5/NTdkNTMxYjQyZTFh/OWIxNi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}