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The traits of an elite performer - A chat with Alistair Brownlee

December 22, 2021 • Paul Cheetham-Karcz • Season 9 • Episode 60

What are the personality traits required to not only reach an elite performance level, but to maintain that level across a career?

That’s the topic up for discussion as host and business leader, Paul Cheetham-Karcz, welcomes Olympic gold medal-winning British triathlete, Alistair Brownlee, to the Taking Care of Business podcast.

Also covered in the conversation is the debate between competition vs participation, the difference between confidence and self-belief in all walks of life and the lessons sport can teach us on the necessity to be ruthless.

Alistair also gives us his account of THAT moment where he carried his heat-exhausted brother, fellow triathlete Jonny Brownlee, across the finishing line at the 2016 World Triathlon Series in Mexico.