It's tough to compete in today's informal educational marketplace. Tight budgets, keen competition, new technologies, and the changing needs of the public we serve all call for new standards of excellence. Paralleling this demand for excellence has been the timely emergence of a fascinating development - the science of peak performance. This article weaves together some of the most important research findings from this emerging science, thereby creating a cogent, practical model for peak performance.
Peak performance has nothing to do with being a workaholic.
It doesn't add stress and tension to our lives. It's not a special or mystical process reserved for the selected few. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. Thus, it has been in large part from studying ordinary people successfully facing extraordinary personal challenges, such as cancer and heart disease, and those desiring to perform at the furthest reaches of their athletic ability, that a research base on peak performance has been established. The components of the model of peak performance presented here will frequently be supported with findings from these medical and athletic studies.