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In this bonus episode of The Mindflick Podcast, we bring together six powerful lessons from our first six guests — spanning elite sport, global business, engineering, and ballet.
You’ll hear insights from:
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Dr Mark Bawden on why focusing on strengths — not obsessing over weaknesses — creates the biggest performance gains, and how leaders often overlook what’s already working.
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Joe Root on learning to live with failure, separating confidence from results, and why team success matters more than individual scores.
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Penny Hughes on shifting between attack and defence, valuing different ways of thinking, and leading with courage in high-stakes environments.
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Gilad Tiefenbrun on market leadership, humility, and how complacency at the top can quietly derail even the most dominant organisations.
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Phil Jansen on managing ambition, building healthy internal competition, and why perspective — including knowing when to “smell the flowers” — is a performance advantage.
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Iain Mackay on super strengths, standing out within a team, and how elite performers build careers by knowing what makes them different.
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