Emotional Intuition for Peak Performance
Secrets from the Sages for Being in the Zone
by Jason Gregory
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Pub Date Jun 16 2020 | Archive Date May 11 2020
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Description
• Details 4 fundamental habits and routines that are essential for developing peak performance and explains how to incorporate them into daily life
• Explains the cognitive science behind the development of expert skills and how the teachings of ancient Eastern sages align with these scientific findings
• Offers practices for cultivating physical and mental intelligence, fasting the mind, and harnessing creativity to achieve your desires
Integrating the wisdom of the ancient sages with modern science, Jason Gregory explains how world-class artists and athletes reach peak performance--and how you, too, can harness this “lifestyle technology” to make your actions effortless, enjoy intelligent spontaneity, and reach optimal performance at a peak level. Drawing on modern cognitive science, Gregory explains dual process theory, which divides mental activity into two spheres: cold cognition, analogous with rational thought, and hot cognition, based on emotional intuition--a theory anticipated by ancient Eastern thought, especially the teachings of the Chinese sages. The author explains that peak performance is impossible to achieve by relying solely on cold cognition as it cuts you off from the energy reserves necessary to excel. He shows how the athletic concept of being “in the zone” is based on practices that have become energized by hot cognition and thus instinctive.
Outlining a structured training system that blends hot and cold cognition, the author identifies four fundamental habits and routines that lay the foundation for a healthy embodied mind and mindful body and thus are essential for developing peak performance and success. He explains how these training methods are practical applications of ancient wisdom from Zen and Taoist traditions, such as wu-wei, as well as how they are supported by recent medical research. Building on the four fundamentals, he offers practices for cultivating physical and mental intelligence, fasting the mind, and harnessing creativity to achieve your desires.
Gregory explains how, with regular practice, we can use the four fundamentals to create masterpiece days. And, as the masterpiece days compound, you build an unstoppable momentum where success is inevitable.
Advance Praise
“Peak performance through the path of right thinking and right action – and inner stability. With Jason Gregory as your guide the reader will experience a wholesome, integral path to self-achievement. With clear language and a no-nonsense approach, Gregory shows us that living at our full optimal potential is also a path to inner peace. Harnessing the latest in cognitive science, sagely wisdom, and eastern philosophy, alongside his own wealth of personal experience, Gregory leads the reader through the ways of nourishing the self in our everyday lives, with creativity and intelligence. Here is a book that asks us to transform and to trust in our inmost nature, with sincerity. Optimal is a breath of sanity much needed in our present times.”
Kingsley L. Dennis, PhD, author of The Sacred Revival: Magic, Mind & Meaning in a Technological Age
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781620559239 |
| PRICE | $16.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 208 |
Featured Reviews
Cindy C, Reviewer
This book is for people who want to improve and achieve mastery in their chosen field. As a self-help book, it's a fairly general book that applies to wide variety of people. The most interesting part of the book is the discussion of "hot cognition" versus "cold cognition." I found this discussion interesting, and I would have like to have read more about this specific topic in more detail.
Most of the second half of the book is about what the author refers to as four fundamental practices for peak performance. Unfortunately, these practices turned out to be extremely basic: eat well, get enough sleep, exercise, and practice meditation. If someone needs to make serious changes in his/her life, this book might be helpful by putting the advice on paper and all in one place. I could be wrong, but I would guess that most people picking up this book, wanting to really improve themselves, will have already embraced these practices.
Overall, this was a pretty good book. It would probably be best for young people or those with no experience with meditation and/or healthy habits.
