Bryan Sutton is one of the best flatpickers alive, and like most great players, he'll tell you the guitar just came naturally to him. In this follow-up to my conversation with Bryan, I dig into what's really behind the making of a "natural," and what it means for you.

Links:

• Pre-order The Genius and the Impostor (out August 25): https://GeniusAndImpostor.com
• The full interview with Bryan Sutton: https://youtu.be/mF0MSRkrriM?si=oNmQxHoMon-UaRKT
• Instagram: @brainjojosh
• More at performanceneurology.institute

Bryan Sutton is a three-time Grammy winner and one of the most-recorded session guitarists in Nashville, with credits from Garth Brooks and Taylor Swift to Dolly Parton and Doc Watson. Yet, he's driven home from sessions convinced he'd never work in the town again.

In this conversation we get into how he built his playing growing up immersed in the mountain music of Western North Carolina, why performing under pressure is a completely separate skill from playing well, and the mental shift he uses to get out of his own way.

Links:

• Pre-order The Genius and the Impostor: GeniusAndImpostor.com
• Take the Pressure Profile: PerformanceNeurology.institute/pressure-profile
• Bryan Sutton at ArtistWorks: ArtistWorks.com/Bryan-Sutton
• Bryan on Instagram: @bryansutton28
• Josh on Instagram: @brainjojosh

In this Genius Arc breakdown, Dr. Josh Turknett takes the story of Nelson Dellis — 6× USA Memory Champion and author of Everyday Genius — and runs it through the Genius and Impostor framework from his forthcoming book. You'll see how a man who says he "truly would have said my memory is average" built a championship-level skill from scratch, why five titles still couldn't stop his body from going into revolt before the sixth, and the reset that let him step on stage as "the most chill version of myself I've ever been." It's a clear, worked example of how capability is built, how pressure hijacks it, and how you get it back.

• Take the free Pressure Profile assessment (3 min): https://performanceneurology.institute/pressure-profile
• Pre-order The Genius and the Impostor: https://GeniusAndImpostor.com
• Read Brains, Banjos and Beyond: https://joshturknett.substack.com
• Nelson Dellis's book Everyday Genius: nelsondellis.com/everyday-genius
• Follow on Instagram: @brainjojosh

Links:

• Pre-order The Genius and the Impostor: GeniusAndImpostor.com
• Nelson's Instagram: @nelzor
• Josh's Instagram: @brainjojosh

Music by Jullienne Ellen (@julienneellencomposes)