Series 3, Episode 30: Do young exceptional performers become adult exceptional performers? With Professor Arne, Arne Güllich, RPTU Kaiserslautern

A 2025 article co-authored by our guest today, sought to answer two critical questions:

• Are exceptional performers at young ages and at later peak performance age largely the same individuals? And
• Do predictors of young exceptional performance also predict later exceptional peak performance?

So what is the answer? And what might this mean for high performance across multiple domains?

To explore this further I am joined by Arne Güllich, professor of sports science at RPTU Kaiserslautern and a leading expert in the area of high performance across multiple domains.

The article discussed in the interview - Güllich, A., Barth, M., Hambrick, D. Z., & Macnamara, B. N. (2025). Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance. Science, 390(6779), eadt7790 – is available here: https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.adt7790?casa_token=LEiJ0xrLHyYAAAAA:9z8cEG-j4nKmTHPiktfip2Afu55JH1OrEW0nISxPTvoWTl2BP0MITOk3egB5tekbOUwdryyrBMMq

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