Performance Intelligence

How do firefighters go from dead asleep or doing paperwork to facing life-or-death situations - in seconds?

In this Bite Size from episode #111, Firefighter Sam Monaghan shares how he masters rapid mental state shifts and the techniques he uses to stay calm under extreme pressure. He also explains why over-arousal in high-stakes environments can destroy performance — and how to avoid it.

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What is Performance Intelligence?

There's IQ. There's EQ. Introducing PQ. All things human performance with PQ founder, Andrew May, exploring the latest in human performance with an all-star cast of subject matter experts covering physical and psychological wellbeing, performance psychology, sport, business, entertainment, the performing arts, leadership, and science.

Learn valuable lessons that can be applied to optimising performance in your personal and professional life. Performance Intelligence applies to the way we turn up in relationships and the way we turn up at work, it applies to the way we perform in front of 10,000 people and the way we perform in front of one.