Learning to compete with yourself: How to spark your competitive fire every day.
In this conversation, Jake Thompson recounts how growing up as a small athlete in football‑crazy Texas taught him to outwork bigger opponents, yet eventually led him to a pivotal realization: the healthiest competition is with your own previous self, not with others. He explains how this shift inspired him to launch Compete Every Day, a company and philosophy that encourages people to beat yesterday’s best through intentional habits, journaling and focusing on purpose rather than comparison.
Exploring the limits of human performance: What are we truly capable of achieving?
In this conversation, science journalist and former national-team runner Alex Hutchinson and Dr. Greg explore the “curiously elastic” limits of human performance—why endurance underpins achievement across domains, and how the brain co-sets the ceiling we feel in the body. Drawing on the research behind Endure, Alex discussed how perception of effort, context, and belief interact with physiology to shape what we can actually do in sport, work, and life.