Welcome to James Hewitt Performance

The Energy Scale: When Are You At Your Best?

On average, human performance can vary by around 20% during the average day, but when are we at our best? While some researchers have found that performance improves through the day; others suggest that it decreases. Some investigators describe how […]

How To Measure Recovery

Recovery is a key to sustainable high-performance in the workplace, but how can we measure and improve it? I spent many years working with endurance athletes, from amateur to professional level. Often, people would ask me what differentiated the top […]

Knowledge Work Is An Endurance Activity

Have you ever thought about planning your effort, and the type and timing of your cognitive activities, to optimise your wellbeing and performance? As life expectancy increases, and retirement age is delayed, maintaining and even enhancing performance, over the long-haul, […]

Punctuating The Digital Age

We are accelerating into the age of ‘connected everything’. There are almost three million apps in one of the world’s leading app stores, many of us check our smart-phones once every 6 minutes and most of us carry our digital […]

Formula One’s ‘Super Performers’

What are the cognitive demands of driving a Formula One car? How can we measure them? Through my work with Hintsa Performance, I’m privileged to work with a number of Formula One coaches, drivers and teams. I recently recorded a […]

Podcast: Avoiding Cognitive ‘Middle Gear’

Think about your average day. Do you feel time pressure? How complex are your tasks? How often do you switch between tasks in a given time period? These three components aggregate to describe the cognitive load of almost any activity […]

How to grow old like an athlete

The question of how to maximise ‘health span’ – the period of life during which we are generally healthy and free from serious disease – is increasingly prevalent both in and out of sport. Global average lifespan doubled during the […]

The Attention Paradox

Many human jobs are likely to be replaced in whole, or in part (1). The workplace of the future will place greater demands on our ability to focus, solve complex problems, think critically and generate creative insights (2), but does […]

EXPONENTIAL Book Launch

Better life, better performance: from Formula 1 to Fortune 500 'Exponential', my latest book, is available now. Are you performing at your full potential? When was the last time you stepped back to consider how you live and work? What if [...]

Rethink Stress

Experiencing stress is a normal part of being human, but can we change our ‘stress mindset’ and even improve our performance in response to stress? In one sense, stress is simply our response when we experience some form of challenge […]