What is Peak Performance?

I remembered this blog on receiving a guest post in response to an ancient request. Not like the summer has dried juices or the pressures of work and home kept me away from keyboard. No, no, no. More like strategic procrastination as I figure out where this blog and its author are headed. Maybe this guest post was the trigger the author needed to commit to visit once in a while. Too. Enough already.

Personal productivity has been of interest to me for decades. When NVL Sateesh began walking me through peak performance a few years back, I watched my years of reading distil down to the principles of mindfulness and intentional living. Sateesh helped me identify and make changes to my frequently self-defeating and wasteful way of living and working, changes that improved the quality of my life significantly. We are thrilled to have him join our small but growing community of mindfulness practitioners.

Peak Performance Coach, NVL Sateesh

Sateesh is a poet, blogger, psychologist, entrepreneur, and software consultant. His specializations includes school psychology and learning. He conducts life skills coaching workshops and corporate training. He is also a reiki healer and student of yoga. He blogs at To The Endless Return. He will be facilitating a one-day workshop on Cultivating Focus from his Peak Performance program at Hyderabad on June 13, 2015. Over to Sateesh. And hey, thanks. For everything.

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There is a widespread belief we use only 10% of our brain power and that we can learn to tap into the other 90% if we train the brain. This is scientifically incorrect. The brain is always performing at its 100% capacity. What this 10% usage perhaps refers to is the power used to work on the current task. Think of times when you were driving on a highway and many kilometers pass before you realize you were not even focusing on the road? Times when you are in a conversation and suddenly figured out you missed the last few minutes even though you were physically hearing? This is what the 10% is perhaps referring to - that only 10% of attention is present on the task at hand.

If you have not watched the movie Limitless starring Bradley Cooper, I would recommend it as a good movie. The movie narrates the story of a struggling writer, who accidentally gets a drug that enables him to access 100% of his brain abilities which turns him into a financial wizard (but brings other kinds of trouble). The drug does not actually enhance his brain capacity, but just makes all the information available in the brain accessible without lapses and fallacies. The concept is interesting to ponder upon. What if we could remember all the information we gather across years? What if we could connect the dots across years of experiences?
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