Do You Spend More Time In Reflection or Strategy? | Josiah Igono, Erik Averill | Athlete CEO: Peak Performance

What's the difference between reflection and strategy? Is reflection the same thing as mindfulness? Are there scientific benefits to journaling?

Show Notes

Do You Spend More Time In Reflection or Strategy? | Josiah Igono, Erik Averill | Athlete CEO: Peak Performance

Living in an “always on” and “permanently connected” world, our everyday experience is littered with a proverbial fire hose of information. We can get any question answered in the blink of an eye on Google, learn how to build a house on YouTube, and keep up with the daily activities of our friends and family on apps like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or TikTok.

It can be overwhelming to sort through this information overload to actually learn something, and even more daunting to carve out space to reflect and grow in this age of constant noise.

We return again this week with another Peak Performance edition of the Athlete CEO podcast with Josiah Igono, founder of All Things Performance. Our Peak Performance episodes with Josiah are all about helping you develop skills that will drive your human capital and performance, as well as help you achieve the life you envisioned.

In this episode, Erik and Josiah look at this problem of improving, growing, and learning in an era of information overload by discussing the importance of reflection, the questions to ask yourself while reflecting, and how practicing this skill set can improve our overall performance trajectory.

Episode Highlights

• (00:57) What is reflection?
• (1:49) Do you spend more time in reflection or in strategy?
• “One of the interview questions that I would always ask was, ‘do you spend more time in reflection or in strategy?’” - Josiah Igono
• “Reflection is the mental review” – Josiah Igono
• (3:07) Drowning in information overload
• (4:41) The differences between reflection and strategy
• (5:17) The questions for reflection
• (6:44) Reflection is not Mindfulness
• (8:13) How a cow chewing is similar to reflecting throughout your day
• (10:47) What are tangible ways to build the habit of reflecting?
• “Clumsiness is actually a sign of growth” – Josiah Igono
• (13:18) How toddlers are actually better than us at approaching new tasks
• (14:57) The scientific benefits of journaling

Creators and Guests

Host

Erik Averill

Partner, Senior Private Wealth Advisor, CFP®, CPWA®

What is Athlete CEO?

Each week on Athlete CEO features select excerpts from interviews with trailblazers, the elite, those at the top of their field and the best at their craft with the goal to curate the best practices that you can leverage to unlock your human capital