How do certain people deliver superlative performance?

While most of the people would like to see close competition in athletics, sports & games, I somehow like to see dominating performance of one individual in matches. With motorsport being my favorite mainly Formula 1 with champions like Micheal Schumacher, Sebestian Vettel, Max Verstappen or MotoGP with champions like Mike Doohan, Valentino Rossi, Marc Marquez has been wonderful to watch. [There are few other dominating champions missing in this list due to other reasons]

So, what makes these sportspersons deliver this performance, there is of course,

• the team which has great resources like people, technology and money,
• the commitment of the individual, in terms of practice, discipline.

But there is one thing that differentiates the dominating champion even from his teammate who might be using the same type of gear and follow more or less the same discipline, which is how they are able to apply their cognitive processing power.

When involved in any sport, the cognitive processing power of human is being used across these three areas,

{a} Control of the body [this is minimal for any normal individual itself, as most part is involuntary], but high-performance athletes need more control, but their physical training would take care.

{b} Doing the essentials of the job [Working with tools, for example, driving the race car at optimum performance levels across the track corner by corner], core skills that any sportsperson would spend several hours per day to hone.

{c} Situational awareness and response [Understanding the overall context of the race, relative position of competition, their strengths and weaknesses.]

The great athlete/ sportsperson, spend very less cognitive power on {b} and have huge capacity to work on {c}, which give them the competitive edge. [Like seen between Max and Sergio in the Red bull team].? I like to see how these champions play the situation.

How do they go about achieving this?

• For many of the great athletes/ sportsperson, tools & equipment become extension to their body. So working with the equipment is no more {b} but becomes more of {a} and {a} requires extremely low cognitive power.
• It is just beyond intense and extensive practice that reduces cognitive load of {b}, it is the involvement and connection that happens [Djokovic does not need to look at his racquet to see if it is held in the right way for the next shot, he can feel it.]

Why am I talking about it now? When AI & GenAI is the prominent technology that is augmenting every human with more cognitive capabilities to do their job better, I am looking at how this work apply across {a}, {b} and {c} at 4 different level novice, beginner, expert, champion.? How can this table be filled?

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Now if we expand this to a typical enterprise and map {b} to "individuals" and {c} to "organization" itself, how would AI & GenAI journey be created for both individual and the organization to achieve superlative performance compared to their peers/ competition.

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