The research on athlete growth, well-being and performance is clear, coaching helps. In this guided journey you’ll receive all the mood and performance enhancing scientific insights from The Antifragile Athlete, plus one-to-one coaching from one of our highly credentialed and experienced antifragility coaches.

What you'll get:

• 90+ concise video lessons on the science of well-being, resilience and mental performance.
• 8, 30-minute 1:1 coaching sessions with one of our highly experienced antifragility coaches.
• Access to a unique link that allows you to book coaching sessions at your pace and preferred dates/times.
• Accompanying workbooks, exercises and reflections to help you apply what you learn during or in between coaching sessions.
• A gamified experience throughout the journey.
• Access to the Antifragility Almanac, complete with additional key points, podcasts, books and talks on every topic we cover. 

[Recommended for ages 14 and older]

[Disclaimer: While it is our goal to be able to pair you with the coach of your choice, we cannot guarantee this given factors such as the coaches availability, your schedule, time zone changes, etc. Should you find yourself unable to schedule time with the coach of your choice, we will provide a refund in full, no questions asked]

What do the lessons cover?

On Your Mark, Get Set

• Understand the difference between coaching, training and therapy and get resources for support if therapy is the more appropriate route to take. 
• Get introduced to what antifragility is and our simple frameworks for making yourself more antifragile.
• Learn the science that suggests you have a lot more control over your mood, well-being and mental performance than you might think. 
• Gain insight into your unique personality as well as strategies for leveraging your individualized traits and tendencies. 

Forging the Path

• Understand that well-being, mood and performance are cyclical as well as how to better strategize to leverage those cycles. 
• Leverage the well-being boost or “happiness advantage”: How feeling good can boost your performance. 
• Utilize unpleasantness: How learning to take on, navigate and use “negative” emotions can improve performance and well-being. 
• Disrupt myths about happiness and mood.
• Learn to love the process, not just the outcome for sustained well-being and performance.
• Learn the basics of visualization for enhanced mood and performance. 
• Gain insight into our “CRIME” framework to find what’s right for you when it comes to your unique well-being, habits, and routines.
• Craft your own personalized “recipe” for a higher quality of life based on the scientific principles of human flourishing. 

Top-Down Tactics

• Learn about the negativity bias and how to combat it. 
• Unlock the power of optimism to give yourself improved mood and performance
• Harness the power of gratitude to help regulate your nervous system
• Gain insight into the powerful, but often overused and commonly misunderstood science of mindsets
• Move from a fixed mindset to a mastery mindset
• Move from a threat or fear mindset to a challenge or opportunity mindset
• Battle your perfectionist tendencies to unlock greater growth
• Learn the key strategies that enable cognitive flexibility
• Enhance your ability to take on different perspectives in the face of adversity
• Gain tools to help you stop catastrophizing when things go wrong
• Dive deep into your personal values so that you can take on difficulty in coherent ways
• Learn how to accept difficult emotions and situations rather than trying to constantly resist them
• Execute mindful awareness and distance from your emotions so that you can respond in the ways you desire 

Bottom-up Strategies

• Understand why separating the body and the brain is a flawed strategy and limits your potential
• Gain skills and strategies for greater emotional control and intelligence
• Learn tangible strategies for better sleep hygiene and the importance of consistent, high quality sleep 
• Understand your body’s natural biological rhythms and sleeping patterns to create better alignment and energy management
• Get the basics of nutrition and its impact on your mood and performance
• Learn the difference between recovery, active recovery and mindless, energy sapping distractions
• Get access to tools that can help you track, score and improve the metrics that matter most to mood and performance. 

Outside-in Approaches

• Understand the tremendous impact of “network effects”
• Learn how your habits, emotions and mood are influence by the people that surround you
• Identify and leverage a greater sense of purpose for increased life-satisfaction and motivation
• Leverage altruism, giving and kindness to improve mood and well-being
• Build environments that help you grow and eliminate systems that hold you back and do damage
• Deepen a sense of meaning and connectedness that can help protect you from depression, suicidality and more

Dealing with Distraction

• Understand the core difference between traction and distraction
• Learn science-backed strategies for enhancing discipline
• Ease your path to greater performance by decreasing decisions and points of friction
• Understand the basics of burnout for sustainable performance over the long haul
• Learn the components of habits and how to make or break them
• Harness the power of intentionality, pre-commitments and time-boxing

Eyes on the Prize and Deepening Focus

• Get into the differences between your attention networks, what they’re for and how to use them
• Learn about the state commonly known as “the zone” as well as how to increase your chances of getting into it
• Nerd out on the neuroscience of dopamine and norepinephrine for deep, sustained focus and performance
• Learn to leverage framing to turn challenging situations into opportunities for peak performance
• Harness the science of recovery to cycle from stress to rest for optimal growth over time
• Discover the benefits of deliberate practice for accelerate progression toward your goals
• Learn the science of the “clutch” state as well as how to increase your chances of being clutch in the moments that matter most

Motivation & Goals

• Learn how to align values, motivation and goals to supercharge your ability to perform, be disciplined, and grow faster
• Understand the basics of motivation and how to harness it to reach your potential
• Gain insight into the components of good goals and goal structures
• Learn how to distribute rewards in ways that keep you on track to accomplish your goals
• Create and conquer intentional challenges to keep goals interesting and achieve greater growth
• Understand why negative visualization might actually be your key to greater growth and success

Life Editing 

• Learn the causes of and strategies for dealing with procrastination
• Leverage the compound interest of daily, 1% changes
• Review the science of self-regulation for enhanced discipline
• Achieve greater growth by gamifying your life
• Routinize your most important daily and weekly activities for greater consistently