Dr. Phil Pearlman - Unlocking Fitness Alpha—The Performance Edge in Markets and Life

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In this episode, we discuss the connection between cultivating discipline in your personal health routine and in the markets with Dr. Phil Pearlman.

• Learn more about Phil’s professional background and what he’s up to now.
• Why did Dr. Pearlman have to help himself before he was able to help others?
• When did Dr. Pearlman’s idea of “fitness alpha” take shape for him? Was there a personal tipping point?
• What does “fitness alpha” look like for Dr. Pearlman on a day-to-day basis?
• When it comes to activity and physical fitness, what are some of the biggest misconceptions people have?
• What kind of physiological changes are the most underrated in how they can impact resilience and adaptability?
• Behavioral Economics is often more focused on diagnosing problems than coming up with solutions. How can we do a better job of implementing the lessons of Behavioral Economics?
• How does cultivating discipline around your health translate to having discipline in the markets, or vice versa?
• What does Dr. Pearlman’s fitness routine look like today?
• Why are sleep and recovery so crucial in Dr. Pearlman’s idea of “fitness alpha?”
• What is “interoception” and why is it so commonly overlooked in the modern world?
• How does Dr. Pearlman help people cut through all the noise in the wellness sector and get started on their personal wellness plan?
• Is there one book, or one quote, that Dr. Pearlman comes back to again and again?

Quotes

“The idea of Alpha is that it’s outsized gains, or outsized losses, but in this case outsized gains relative to a benchmark…As I was getting healthier and healthier — losing  a bunch of weight, improving my cardiovascular capacity, improving my muscle mass, I was finding that I was performing better. Whether it was consulting, whether it was professionally…relationships improving in my private life, all aspects of my life were improving in the present…When we think about getting healthy, we usually think about the long-term…but there’s also…there’s multiple time frames, there’s the future aspect and there’s also the present aspect. Our performance improves as we get healthy and so it’s like fitness alpha and then the tagline is ‘get healthy, perform better.’ As I started looking into it more deeply, I started finding that there was all of this research that supported this.” - Phil Pearlman

“Once concept, that I think has really resonated with people, is this idea of priority stacking…because we take our health, we take arguable the most important thing in the universe…and a lot of times…we’re just kind of trying to fit it in [at the bottom of] this incredibly busy schedule…So for me, it’s like what is really your priority? [We take] that sort of smooshing it in at the bottom, if we have time, and pulling it out and putting it at the top of the stack.” - Phil Pearlman

Links

• Dr. Phil Pearlman
• The Pearl Institute
• “Ab-Souls Outro” by Kendrick Lamar
• No-Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners
• Tao Te Ching

Connect with Us

• Rusty Vanneman on LinkedIn
• Robyn Murray on LinkedIn