Professor Steve Peters

<p>Gabby is joined by Consultant Psychiatrist <a href="https://chimpmanagement.com/professor-steve-peters/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Professor Steve Peters</a>, who - for the last thirty years - has helped people from all walks of life to better understand the way their brains work and optimise their psychological health. These people include elite athletes and Olympians, household names such as Sir Chris Hoy, who previously said on this podcast that Steve was a “once in a lifetime person”.&nbsp;</p><br><p>We hear how Steve came to recognise psychological dysfunction when he was a junior doctor, and how he realised that psychiatry was crucial to people’s lives whilst training to become a GP. We learn how this set him on a course to developing the Chimp Paradox mind management model, and then - as he describes it - going undercover at the Athens Olympic Games in 2004. Fast forward to today, and he has provided consultancy to over twenty Olympic and national sporting tea...