109 Science of WHY with Pieter Kruger

Starting with WHY is one of the most crucial elements needed for sports, businesses, organisations or for individual approaches to achieve sustainable performance. Pieter Kruger shares the science of WHY, explains how we respond to different levels of pressure and how we apply the WYSIATI principle to filter information in life which in turn impacts our judgment, decision-making, reactions and behaviours. KEY TAKEAWAY "What we see at the moment is that people have significant elevated levels of anxiety mainly as a result of the uncertainty. So uncertainty becomes a fascinating thing because the human mind for evolutionary reasons and for survival hates uncertainty. So as soon as there's uncertainty, we either fill in information ourselves, and this is where we see a lot of conspiracy theories coming from, or we seek reassurance."   ABOUT PIETER KRUGER Prof Pieter Kruger PhD, CPsychol., AFBPsS is a HCPC and HPCSA consultant performance and clinical psychologist with 19 years' experience, specialising in elite performance (business and sport), as well as clinical practice. He has a special interest in the design and implementation of high-performance strategies to optimise wellbeing and performance in high pressure environments on a systemic, team and individual level. He has been supporting teams and organisations globally to optimise their human factor components and equip individuals with the mental capital to act on team/ business strategic intent. He is a professor of clinical psychology at the Institute of Psychology & Wellbeing and a visiting professor at the UCL Medical School, Institute for Sport, Exercise & Health.   CONNECT WITH PIETER https://www.linkedin.com/in/pieter-kruger-phd-1320aa14/ https://www.cognacity.co.uk/   ABOUT THE HOST - AMY ROWLINSON Amy is a Coach, Mentor, iTunes #1 Podcaster, Mastermind Host, Speaker and Property Investor. Through coaching and workshops, Amy works with businesses to Focus on WHY to create people-centred environments, by improving productivity and employee engagement by focusing on fulfilment, values and purpose.   Amy inspires and empowers entrepreneurial clients to discover the life they dream of by assisting them to make it their reality through their own action taking. Helping them to focus on their WHY with clarity uniting their passion and purpose with a plan to create the life they truly desire.   If you would like Amy to help you focus on your WHY then please book a free 20 min call via www.calendly.com/amyrowlinson/enquirycall    Please sign up for the weekly Friday Focus newsletter at https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter   CONNECT WITH AMY https://www.instagram.com/focusonwhy/  https://www.instagram.com/amy.rowlinson/ https://www.facebook.com/RowlinsonAmy/ https://www.facebook.com/focusonwhy/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/focusonwhy/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyrowlinson/   HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson   DISCLAIMER The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence.