Sep 18, 2026 · 41 min · 11 segments
Welcome back to the Slice of PIE podcast. This episode is part 2 of the conversation with Robbie Anderson. If you like digging into the performance world of Formula One, as well a casual mentions of…
Robbie AndersonGuest
Pete JacksonHost
i love that And we did say beforehand we were going to try and surface some of your anecdotes.
I'm collecting now like a magpie, psychologically informed environment magpie, books, podcasts, movies, TV shows that have impacted our guests.
Okay, again, I've obviously listened and I have thought about this a little bit.
I don't want to be too structured, but I do want to just almost give a quick kind of call to three levels.
Yeah, you've read it? I just remember, because what it reminded me was you do your like basic training and you get some skills and off we go and we're going to start working with athletes.
And then this paper was just like a sledgehammer of bigger questions, you know, like...
Yeah, like ethical and who's the client? Is it the F1 driver who is paying you to the company directly? Yes, that's the client.
Okay, or is it the race team who is actually now sponsoring you to work with the driver? Okay, well, that's interesting.
Or is it the race team who's asked you to come and be the psychologist in-house and you're working? So these questions hit me in the face in 2005.
And to this day, when I now kind of lead the group and we look at our contracting and we look at how we communicate with teams, to this day they're relevant
and I think still good fantastic I think the chimp paradox it would be mental of me not to say how powerful it was it just gave me an insight to neuroscience which in 2008 when I met Steve didn't exist and he was writing it on the board he was literally drawing these ideas on a whiteboard because his book didn't exist four years later they published it and I always say if you haven't read it it's a good holiday read so chimp paradox but final thing I'll say i can say this so earnestly for me it's not a book it's not a film the biggest influence on my work is conversations with people brilliant it is people honestly it is peer groups supervision groups it's going for nando's with a colleague and saying hey kind of run this past year it's me and you talking today that for me is just the biggest inspiration and and learning window for me to this
i love that And we did say beforehand we were going to try and surface some of your anecdotes.
I'm collecting now like a magpie, psychologically informed environment magpie, books, podcasts, movies, TV shows that have impacted our guests.
Okay, again, I've obviously listened and I have thought about this a little bit.
I don't want to be too structured, but I do want to just almost give a quick kind of call to three levels.
Yeah, you've read it? I just remember, because what it reminded me was you do your like basic training and you get some skills and off we go and we're going to start working with athletes.
And then this paper was just like a sledgehammer of bigger questions, you know, like...
Yeah, like ethical and who's the client? Is it the F1 driver who is paying you to the company directly? Yes, that's the client.
Okay, or is it the race team who is actually now sponsoring you to work with the driver? Okay, well, that's interesting.
Or is it the race team who's asked you to come and be the psychologist in-house and you're working? So these questions hit me in the face in 2005.
And to this day, when I now kind of lead the group and we look at our contracting and we look at how we communicate with teams, to this day they're relevant
and I think still good fantastic I think the chimp paradox it would be mental of me not to say how powerful it was it just gave me an insight to neuroscience which in 2008 when I met Steve didn't exist and he was writing it on the board he was literally drawing these ideas on a whiteboard because his book didn't exist four years later they published it and I always say if you haven't read it it's a good holiday read so chimp paradox but final thing I'll say i can say this so earnestly for me it's not a book it's not a film the biggest influence on my work is conversations with people brilliant it is people honestly it is peer groups supervision groups it's going for nando's with a colleague and saying hey kind of run this past year it's me and you talking today that for me is just the biggest inspiration and and learning window for me to this
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