Craig Harper is obsessed with human behaviour and over the past 4 decades has worn multiple hats including Exercise Scientist, Personal Trainer, Best-Selling Author, Corporate Speaker, University Lecturer, AFL Strength & Conditioning Coach, Business Owner, and self-proclaimed Bogan.
He is host of the wildly successful podcast ‘The You Project’ and speaks at over 100 corporate events every year. His PHD is about how others experience you, diving into rich psychological principles including metacognition, theory of mind, meta-perception, and meta-accuracy. And as you'll discover from listening this episode, he dances from evidence-based rigour to in your face shock value. That's why we love him!
In this episode Andrew and Craig talk about:
2:40 Craig’s love of human potential, his PHD in meta cognition and how sometimes "the actual problem" is at the top end of the business.
7:45 You’re employing people, not robots, your intentions are not what other people experience and Craig’s story of getting critical feedback and running with it.
18:15 The 5 different parts of you, being less performative and more personal and having less of a persona on stage to be more relatable.
29:00 Starting any journey as a white belt, Craig’s self-awareness pyramid model and don’t wait for a catastrophe to make changes.
36:45 It’s easy to keep doing the same thing even if it doesn’t work, you spend a year designing your perfect house but you don’t spend any time designing your life and mindfulness vs mindlessness.
45:15 What is meta perception, Craigs upbringing in a Christian household and why he eventually left the church.
52:45 Craigs take on spirituality, using prayer to regulate emotions and Craig’s minimal preparation process for speaking events.
1:01:00 5 years of no jizz, finding the best presentation style for you and Craigs praise for Andrew.
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What is Performance Intelligence Podcast?
A podcast about all things human performance.
Listen in as Andrew May explores 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.
Episodes include 3 main categories:
1. High Performer Series - exploring the habits, tactics and strategies that have led to success for some of the world’s leading performers…
2. The Science Of - drilling down deep into the science of a specific performance-related construct, with leading domain experts…
3. Performer Spotlight – an interview with a coaching client, an athlete, or a leader of a large team Andrew has worked with and how they have applied Performance Intelligence…