May 18, 2026 · 53 min · 23 segments
Andy Walshe has spent his career at the frontier of human performance, from Australia's post-Sydney Games high-performance system, through a decade at Red Bull, to his current work with Liminal…
Andy WalsheGuest
Harry MoffittHostPreston ClineHost
Are we in danger, do you think, of over-weighting a laser-like focus on the performance rather than the person? And, and in doing so, are we, you know, diminishing their ability to intuit and be imaginative and creative?
So let's get back to that human and those fundamental human qualities and focus on that first.
So inter-receptiveness, creativity, all those skills are really part of being more human, and allowing that to be your sort of central foundational point, and then you can layer on everything else as you mentioned.
I think what's happening, and we call it the human-machine paradox, where the technology's racing, you know, democratization of knowledge.
Already the machine's got, got me at, at all ends in terms of tacit knowledge, and it's probably gonna have everybody in the next 12 to 18 months.
So then the paradox is with all this technological advancements, which to your point I think is driving a, has driven a focus on the measureables, we are now looking at the opportunity to make humans more human.
And so how do you train intuition? How do you train empathy? How do you train compassion? And, you know, your counterparts over here in terms of your old command and all the other special mission units, that's the conversations we're having with them right now.
How do you, how do you actually coach and elevate creativity? You can select, but how do we even train to it? How do we train to intuition? How do we bring some of those skills back? And even in sport, recently talking to a pitching coach-
... and he was talking about how with all the technology, the, the machine can read the pitch, the baseball pitch, can look at the spin, can look at all the elements pre- and give you a report straight away as soon as the pitch is done and what it did.
You know, so we're creating a bias towards this sort of knowledge for knowledge's sake-
Let's read the play, read the emotion, read the body language of the pitcher coming up to the plate.
But I think we do run the risk of dehumanizing the individual in these very, very quantitative assessment-based performance programs.
Yeah, it worries me from here, from where I sit in, in Australia and the organizations I work with.
Are we in danger, do you think, of over-weighting a laser-like focus on the performance rather than the person? And, and in doing so, are we, you know, diminishing their ability to intuit and be imaginative and creative?
So let's get back to that human and those fundamental human qualities and focus on that first.
So inter-receptiveness, creativity, all those skills are really part of being more human, and allowing that to be your sort of central foundational point, and then you can layer on everything else as you mentioned.
I think what's happening, and we call it the human-machine paradox, where the technology's racing, you know, democratization of knowledge.
Already the machine's got, got me at, at all ends in terms of tacit knowledge, and it's probably gonna have everybody in the next 12 to 18 months.
So then the paradox is with all this technological advancements, which to your point I think is driving a, has driven a focus on the measureables, we are now looking at the opportunity to make humans more human.
And so how do you train intuition? How do you train empathy? How do you train compassion? And, you know, your counterparts over here in terms of your old command and all the other special mission units, that's the conversations we're having with them right now.
How do you, how do you actually coach and elevate creativity? You can select, but how do we even train to it? How do we train to intuition? How do we bring some of those skills back? And even in sport, recently talking to a pitching coach-
... and he was talking about how with all the technology, the, the machine can read the pitch, the baseball pitch, can look at the spin, can look at all the elements pre- and give you a report straight away as soon as the pitch is done and what it did.
You know, so we're creating a bias towards this sort of knowledge for knowledge's sake-
Let's read the play, read the emotion, read the body language of the pitcher coming up to the plate.
But I think we do run the risk of dehumanizing the individual in these very, very quantitative assessment-based performance programs.
Yeah, it worries me from here, from where I sit in, in Australia and the organizations I work with.
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