Philosophy | THE PERFORMANCE DOC

The Fear of the Unknown

I remember being afraid of open water. A lot. We would go on a boat with friends. Everybody would jump off and swim. I stay on the boat. Irrational fear. Fear of the unknown. What do we do when are afraid of the unknown? We get to know it. Last year I did a 6-week

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Embracing the struggle

Imagine for a second. Imagine there was no struggle. Imagine we had no limitations. How would life be? Nothing would be difficult. We would not have to learn because we are all-knowing. We would not have to work, because we already have everything.

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Leave the Jersey in a higher place

Is everything fine the way it is in this world? Should we change something? If Yes, in which direction? Is there a direction? What does that mean for our personal responsibilities and self-image?

Philosophy

The Ego and Winning

My current topic of interest : EGO and human performance. When I talk to coaches in professional sport, a recurrent theme I get is: "the big EGOs of some players/coaches/doctors are holding our performance back".

Philosophy

Evolution is based on failure

In Nature Evolution is based on MISTAKES. Every genetic mutation ultimately is a mistake. A mistake in reading genetic code, a mistake in writing genetic code, or a failure to preserve genetic code. But it

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Form Follows Functions

It is one of the oldest principles of understanding the workings of nature, and its implications are far reaching. SPORTS MEDICINE. When the anatomy is "dysformed" (think bone spurs, cartilage damage, boney impingements (eg.FAI)) we

Functional Medicine

The practical difference between conventional and alternative medicine

Luckily there is this emerging trend in medical research to broaden the scope of „optimal outcome“ by not only looking at survival, but also at well-being and performance. This emerging trend in science is not picked up by clinical practice unfortunately. And there are two simple reasons behind this.

Zen is Action : A Zen Master on the essence of performance

We hooked up with a Zen Master to point us in the right directions on some fundamental questions about the essence of human performance

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The scalability of practicality

How long is the coastline of California? When you ask Wikipedia the answer is somewhere between 1350km and 5515km long. WHAT? How can it be that the answer has such an incredible variability? I am asking about the length of the coast line and not quantum physics! …….or am I?

Philosophy

When boy becomes man

People say it's a hard to be a man these days. For a man it's not.