"Human performance is not one thing. Human performance and optimization is this crazy puzzle that has everything in it, and the puzzle is a little different for everybody."
Jeff Byers
Apr 12, 2021
EFR 461: Perform, Adapt, Evolve - The Three Pillars of Human Optimization with Jeff Byers
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EFR 461: Perform, Adapt, Evolve - The Three Pillars of Human Optimization with Jeff Byers
Jeff Byers is a former NFL player and the current CEO of Amp Human, which offers innovative products that help athletes push the limits on their performance, adaptation, and recovery.
With an interest in both sports and entrepreneurship from an early age, Jeff always harbored an interest in finding creative ways to push his boundaries for growth as a human. “I was always thinking about the little things I could do to get better,” he says. “I tried to use my brain to work smarter than always just work harder.”
After retiring from the NFL, Jeff worked for a few years in the finance space before joining an early-stage biotech startup in late 2015. This company had discovered a way to deliver pharmaceuticals through the skin, bypassing the GI system which often limits the body’s ability to optimally absorb vitamins and minerals taken orally.
Not long after joining the company, Jeff and one of his partners developed a broad vision for a business offering products specifically formulated to optimize human performance, a space in which they saw, at the time, a huge gap in the market.
Listen in as Jeff talks all things human performance and optimization and why he refers to it as a “broad spectrum”. He also discusses the benefits of Amp Human’s flagship product, PR Lotion, and its newly released D+ Lotion.
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Key Highlights
Jeff explains how to differentiate between human performance and biohacking, and how he optimizes his cognitive abilities.
Routines are great for introducing discipline; but could they also be a limiting factor to evolving, adapting, and breaking past barriers with regard to human performance?
What does Jeff mean by “broad spectrum human performance”?
Jeff speaks on the relationship between mindset and human performance.
How do Amp Human’s products, particularly PR Lotion, help humans break their limits and achieve more?
Powerful Quotes by Jeff Byers
One of the things I learned from sports was how to make decisions, and how to make decisions fast knowing that you’re going to fail. It’s important to fail fast but how do you evaluate that and actually move forward over the long-term to really be able to create big gains over time?
Human nature is how we continue to move forward whether we are doing it willingly or not, or knowingly or not.
Our goal at Amp Human is to deliver relevant solutions using a systems-based approach to athletes who train with a purpose, or to humans who continually seek to level up.
We don’t know what the potential of a human is, and we won’t know.
We believe there are three core pillars to human performance: perform, adapt, and evolve.
How do we not just train harder, but also maximize everything around it including the mind, body, and soul?