Performance under pressure

FeaturedDerrick McManusFormer South Australian Police STAR Group officer and founder of Human Durability

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  What do you say to yourself when you think you are dying?

  Derrick McManus says he could either die within moments or sustain optimal performance, and at that point he fought his hardest, telling himself out loud to keep fighting.

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  The BEYOND Podcast · Season 3, episode 9

• Does being nervous affect performance in high-risk situations?

  Derrick McManus says he and his STAR Group colleagues train for high-risk work and want to use those skills; anyone who goes in nervous performs below the level needed.

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  The BEYOND Podcast · Season 3, episode 9

• What is sustained optimal performance?

  Derrick McManus says STAR Group trains its people to operate at 100% all the time, yet with two severed arteries, sustained optimal performance meant slowing his heart rate and breathing.

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  The BEYOND Podcast · Season 3, episode 9

• What does it mean to go beyond resilience?

  Derrick McManus says his process is universal, applying as much to bullied schoolchildren and CEOs as to the SAS, and that it goes beyond resilience to sustaining optimal performance.

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  The BEYOND Podcast · Season 3, episode 9