What if everything you think you know about peak performance is backwards?

Most people optimize from the outside in. They chase productivity hacks, social strategies, cognitive enhancers, and fitness routines—treating each as separate puzzles to solve. They're building on quicksand.

Here's what I've discovered after years of deconstructing how elite performers actually operate: it all starts at the cellular level.

Your mitochondria—those microscopic power plants in every cell—don't just determine whether you feel energetic. They determine how clearly you think, how efficiently you work, how magnetically you show up in social situations, and how powerfully you move through the world.

Think about it: your brain, your muscles, your confidence, your charisma—they're all downstream from one fundamental question: How well do your cells make energy?