Most people assume high performance is complicated. More systems, more strategies, more information.
But what if it actually came down to just three things?
Performance psychologist Dan Abrahams believes the foundation of elite performance is built on three simple pillars: attention, intensity, and intent.
When those three elements align, focus sharpens, energy rises, and performance lifts — whether you’re on the field, in the boardroom, or navigating a demanding day.
The challenge is that most people drift through their work without consciously training any of them.
This Bite Size explores how these three pillars emerged from years of working with elite athletes and teams, and why they remain one of the simplest frameworks for lifting your performance every single day.
A short, powerful reminder that performing well often comes back to mastering the fundamentals.
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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.