Rest Protocol to Beat Your Best: how elite performers match work with time off and breaks.

You can be incredibly driven and still be held back by the one thing you keep postponing: recovery. After DMing 50 founders, business owners, and leaders to ask what limits their performance, I got a surprisingly consistent answer: rest, recovery, and sleep. Not strategy. Not hustle. The basics we all “know,” but rarely protect on the calendar. Drawing from the book *Peak Performance* by Steve Magnus, I share the work-rest rhythm that shows up again and again in research and elite training. ...