Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2019-01-07
Books mentioned on Endure; Finding The Limits Of Human Performance - Alex Hutchinson - #046
Alex Hutchinson is a journalist, athlete and author of "Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance". What makes some of us quit while others can continue?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson is a science and sports book exploring the psychological and physiological boundaries of human endurance.
Discussed“and where does the book start”
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“recently wrote a book called endure mind body and the curiously elastic limits of human performance”
“Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance”
“and in fact I'll jump right in with the definition that I ended up using in the book which is the endurance is the struggle to continue against a mounting desire to stop”
“so basically what I tried to do in the book is I tried to sort of attack my this claim that we've just been talking about that it's all perception of effort”
“so so those are the sort of counter arguments that you have to think about and say okay but Alex before you write a book that that claims that in the limits of endurance are all in your head”