Building the Elite Podcast

Eustress training is a way of training your body to do more work, easily by raising the baseline of movement or exercise that you can do without stressing your body out or making a significant demand ...

26 Jul 202215min

Over our lifetimes, as years of experiences accumulate, we can begin to formulate a universal lesson: No matter how many bad things you went through in the past, you were still alive when they were ov...

19 Jul 202227min

In the second half of our conversation with Dr. Andy Morgan, we cover topics including:⁠ ⁠ - Advice for people seeking careers in the intelligence community⁠ - Andy’s work as an expert witness testify...

14 Jul 202247min

Dr. Andy Morgan is a Yale-educated former CIA medical intelligence officer, and one of the world's foremost experts on performance under stress in special operations personnel. In this episode we co...

12 Jul 202249min

Self-herding is when you refer to your past actions for subconscious guidance rather than mirroring what others around you are doing. This effect can persist a lot longer than the situation that produ...

6 Jul 20228min

In SOF selection, you'll often hear instructors say "Don't set yourself up for failure." From your viewpoint in the pushup position with wet sand abrading every inch of your body, this might seem li...

28 Jun 202214min

Metacognition is a fancy word for “thinking about thinking”.⁠ ⁠ To borrow definitions from research with Olympic athletes, metacognition can be broken into 3 forms:⁠ ⁠ - being aware of goals and how t...

20 Jun 202210min

Dr. Doug Kechijian is a physical therapist and CEO and co-founder of Resilient Performance Systems, which has locations in Manhattan, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Resilient seeks to systematically ex...

14 Jun 20221h 7min