Athlete CEO #40: Optimizing Your Human Potential | Joe Schmidt
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Episode Summary
On the fourth and final part of our interview with Joe Schmidt we discuss how Joe puts his high athletic performance into his real life, the four pillars that Joe has broken his life into, and the greatest advice he’s gotten from a mentor.
Episode Highlights:
4:02 What cultivated Joe Schmidt’s intense desire for learning and has he always been a lifelong learner?
“This isn't the dress rehearsal, this is the show. We got one shot as humans in one lifetime.”
5:12 What are Joe Schmidt’s go to resources and does he have a specific approach to how he goes about learning?
Joe finds it’s better to be malleable in the things you seek to learn about. He doesn’t read the same newspapers or magazines or blogs every day, but he comes upon different topics he’s passionate about and gains a deeper understanding of those topics.
7:20 As former elite athletes, one of the things they believe in is high performance, and they believe that high performance should go far beyond the field. How does Joe Schmidt approach his life outside of work and how does he optimize all aspects of his life?
Joe has Four Core Pillars: Athletic or health, academic or professional goals, spiritual and social.
“If any of those core pillars goes to zero, the entire value of the equation goes to zero.”
11:19 Who are some mentors in Joe’s life? One of the most important takeaways from a mentor in Joe Schmidt’s life is the idea of Galileo’s Theory of Relativity.
14:20 What has Joe learned in this time of COVID and how has his life shifted?
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