--- title: "The Performance File | Boaz Gilad on Performance & Leadership" description: "The Performance File — Boaz Gilad's weekly notes on performance, discipline, leadership and resilience. 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Boaz explores how to commit fully to a future without becoming so attached to one outcome that you stop seeing reality when it changes.", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-future-trading" }, { "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "On Momentum", "url": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-momentum", "datePublished": "2026-06-21", "dateModified": "2026-06-21", "image": "https://www.boazgilad.com/__l5e/assets-v1/52fce45e-5f36-4a6d-99c7-38d39d640ea0/blog-on-momentum.webp", "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "articleSection": "Performance", "description": "You are on a downward escalator. Standing still is not maintaining — it's losing ground. Boaz maps the three phases of momentum (heavy lift, momentum, coasting), why coasting is the most dangerous because it still feels like movement, and how top performers learn to manage pace rather than worship speed.", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-momentum" }, { "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "On Vision", "url": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-vision", "datePublished": "2026-06-14", "dateModified": "2026-06-14", "image": "https://www.boazgilad.com/__l5e/assets-v1/986e3241-e33d-4848-98a2-f4adfb200300/blog-on-vision.webp", "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "articleSection": "Leadership", "description": "A sentence on a wall is not a vision. A real vision is a way of seeing — one that reaches your calendar, your money, your body, and your relationships. Boaz's test: look at your last 48 hours and ask whether your actions are actually building the future you claim to want.", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-vision" }, { "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "On Motivation", "url": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-motivation", "datePublished": "2026-06-07", "dateModified": "2026-06-07", "image": "https://www.boazgilad.com/__l5e/assets-v1/1f0fcdf7-646a-4c08-8f66-edef93ee5932/blog-on-motivation.webp", "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "articleSection": "Performance", "description": "Motivation is the spark, not the fire. Waiting for it to return before acting is how capable people quietly slide from expansion to shrinking. Boaz reframes the question from \"do I feel like doing this?\" to \"is this action expanding me or shrinking me?\" — and builds the case for structure over inspiration.", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-motivation" }, { "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "On Loss", "url": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-loss", "datePublished": "2026-05-31", "dateModified": "2026-05-31", "image": "https://www.boazgilad.com/__l5e/assets-v1/a7ea601d-652c-4533-af19-03dc1b572196/blog-on-loss.webp", "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "articleSection": "Resilience", "description": "A father speaks about his son who is no longer alive — and says he has not lost him at all. Boaz uses this as the entry point for a broader truth: what we love doesn't disappear when the form changes. The question is whether you demand the old form back, or learn to receive what remains.", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-loss" }, { "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "On Halftime", "url": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-halftime", "datePublished": "2026-05-24", "dateModified": "2026-05-24", "image": "https://www.boazgilad.com/__l5e/assets-v1/2c5d0334-23e0-446e-abfd-d46b4d4f9394/blog-on-halftime.webp", "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "articleSection": "Strategy", "description": "There comes a moment when motion becomes dangerous — not because the goal changed, but because you now have information you didn't have at the start. Boaz makes the case for the strategic pause: not a retreat, but an elevation. Read the scoreboard without drama, adjust the playbook without abandoning the game.", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-halftime" }, { "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "On Doing Your Best", "url": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-doing-your-best", "datePublished": "2026-05-17", "dateModified": "2026-05-17", "image": "https://www.boazgilad.com/__l5e/assets-v1/75132770-1a6b-44af-b915-81b523b2b64c/blog-on-doing-your-best.webp", "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "articleSection": "Mindset", "description": "Much of what any meaningful goal requires is made of things you don't enjoy doing — repeatedly. The shift that separates top performers is deceptively simple: if I'm already doing it, I'll do it to the best of my current ability. That decision alone turns the task from punishment into training.", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-doing-your-best" }, { "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "On After the Plan", "url": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-after-the-plan", "datePublished": "2026-05-10", "dateModified": "2026-05-10", "image": "https://www.boazgilad.com/__l5e/assets-v1/fdf4c871-3837-4aca-9d30-209d8456a803/blog-on-after-the-plan.webp", "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "articleSection": "Strategy", "description": "The plan is a tool, not the destination. There always comes a point where the formula stops fitting the reality it was designed for — and the people who cling to the original design pay for it. Boaz maps the shift from executing what was planned to navigating what is actually required.", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-after-the-plan" }, { "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "On Sisyphus", "url": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-sisyphus", "datePublished": "2026-05-03", "dateModified": "2026-05-03", "image": "https://www.boazgilad.com/__l5e/assets-v1/e009e3be-1ff4-4240-9976-333397478908/blog-on-sisyphus.webp", "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "articleSection": "Mindset", "description": "The hunger inside top performers is real, powerful — and always unsatisfied for long. Every summit reveals another. Boaz reframes the myth of Sisyphus not as punishment but as the human condition: the point was never to reach the top and stop. The point was always the climb itself.", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-sisyphus" }, { "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "On The Long Game", "url": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-the-long-game", "datePublished": "2026-04-26", "dateModified": "2026-04-26", "image": "https://www.boazgilad.com/__l5e/assets-v1/4aa65f13-1500-49b7-b4fe-68e0c11c7dd1/blog-on-the-long-game.webp", "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "articleSection": "Strategy", "description": "Life is not made of separate victories. Health affects leadership. Leadership affects family. Family affects money. Everything touches everything — and people who optimize one domain while neglecting the system quietly lose the whole. Boaz maps how top performers layer wins, and why narrow success so often feels empty.", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-the-long-game" }, { "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "On Earthquake", "url": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-earthquake", "datePublished": "2026-04-19", "dateModified": "2026-04-19", "image": "https://www.boazgilad.com/__l5e/assets-v1/e5b04114-4b36-4f43-b1e5-9dd2aaa426b0/blog-on-earthquake.webp", "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Boaz Gilad" }, "articleSection": "Leadership", "description": "AI is not another technology trend. It's a force rewriting the operating system of society — and most people are still polishing skills built for the previous world. Boaz's case: the advantage belongs not to those with the right answers, but to those with the highest learning rate and the courage to move while the ground is shaking.", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-earthquake" } ] }, { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Boaz Gilad", "item": "https://www.boazgilad.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "The Zenith Code", "item": "https://www.boazgilad.com/blog" } ] } ] --- [Boaz Gilad](/) - [Podcast](/podcast) - [Books](/books/zenith-code) - [Speaker Kit](/speaker-kit) Menu [Book To Speak](/#connect) Weekly Insights # The Performance File Weekly notes from Boaz Gilad — the thinking behind The Zenith Code. Every week, a new edition on performance, discipline, resilience and leadership — 20 editions and growing. - Mindset - Time & Priorities - Performance - Resilience - Leadership - Strategy [Subscribe on Substack](https://substack.com/@boazgilad) - [![On the Imposter article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/b683ed1e-7bbf-49a0-86bc-4a757a65d4e1/blog-on-the-imposter.webp)](/blog/on-the-imposter) Mindset August 30, 2026 ## [On the Imposter](/blog/on-the-imposter) Every high-stakes room activates the same inner voice — who are you to be here? Boaz unpacks the imposter experience not as a disorder but as a human condition, and argues that the antidote isn't confidence — it's curiosity. When you stop measuring rank and start looking for what you can learn from the people around you, the courtroom becomes a classroom. [Read the summary](/blog/on-the-imposter)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-the-imposter) - [![On Waste article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/debc036f-d85d-406c-a882-c675dd76d570/blog-on-waste.webp)](/blog/on-waste) Time & Priorities August 23, 2026 ## [On Waste](/blog/on-waste) We get furious when money is wasted but casual when life is. Time is the one resource with no refund — yet most people treat it as if the account is unlimited. Boaz draws a sharp line between rest (which restores life) and waste (which drains it), and gives a 7-question audit to reclaim one hour this week. [Read the summary](/blog/on-waste)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-waste) - [![On Becoming article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/3df8b60c-37d4-4b5b-ad8a-ed7da4197879/blog-on-becoming.webp)](/blog/on-becoming) Performance August 16, 2026 ## [On Becoming](/blog/on-becoming) Becoming is a powerful commitment — and a trap. You can spend a life chasing the person you're supposed to become while never fully inhabiting the one you already are. Boaz argues that growth and presence aren't opposites: you practice becoming so you can be more fully, now. [Read the summary](/blog/on-becoming)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-becoming) - [![On Accidents article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/9b7c13ca-ee02-4c8d-9e20-25c3498c0446/blog-on-accidents.webp)](/blog/on-accidents) Resilience August 9, 2026 ## [On Accidents](/blog/on-accidents) An accident is life removing the ground. What separates top performers isn't that fewer things go wrong — it's how quickly they return to useful action. Boaz's framework: find your humor, find your compassion, take the next move. And build the accident kit before you need it. [Read the summary](/blog/on-accidents)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-accidents) - [](/blog/on-after-the-win) Performance August 2, 2026 ## [On After the Win](/blog/on-after-the-win) The dangerous moment isn't the struggle — it's right after something works. The same drive that builds success makes it almost impossible to stop and let the win actually become part of you. Boaz examines the discipline of integration: why rushing to the next game before the last one is fully installed quietly costs you everything. [Read the summary](/blog/on-after-the-win)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-after-the-win) - [![On Being Wrong article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/75bdb74e-81c1-402e-a185-4cf43fcb77a3/blog-on-being-wrong.webp)](/blog/on-being-wrong) Leadership July 26, 2026 ## [On Being Wrong](/blog/on-being-wrong) We've built a culture that demands leaders never fail — and in doing so, we've made good leadership nearly impossible. Boaz argues that the ability to be wrong well is not a soft trait but a central performance skill. Leaders who can't update reality eventually make everyone else pay for the performance of certainty. [Read the summary](/blog/on-being-wrong)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-being-wrong) - [![On Celebration article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/b27115a2-9aef-4732-a21d-412cbe15532c/blog-on-celebration.webp)](/blog/on-celebration) Performance July 19, 2026 ## [On Celebration](/blog/on-celebration) Many high performers are suspicious of celebration — it feels indulgent, inefficient, dangerous. But a win you don't receive never becomes part of you. Boaz reframes celebration as strategy: the discipline of absorbing experience, honoring the people who helped, and turning lessons into commandments your future self can use. [Read the summary](/blog/on-celebration)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-celebration) - [![On Journey article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/3bc2c526-0201-4bca-8c9e-5bde1dcc7c0e/blog-on-journey.webp)](/blog/on-journey) Mindset July 12, 2026 ## [On Journey](/blog/on-journey) We live trapped between memory and anticipation, rarely in the actual road under our feet. Boaz argues that knowing where you are on the journey — honestly, without decoration — is the only way to use the right tool for the terrain you're actually on, not the one you imagined. [Read the summary](/blog/on-journey)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-journey) - [![On Completion article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/0d2392aa-c9fd-47e3-8b19-5c57f6563c1f/blog-on-completion.webp)](/blog/on-completion) Performance July 5, 2026 ## [On Completion](/blog/on-completion) A game can end without being completed. The activity stops, but the story follows you into the next room, the next relationship, the next business. Boaz draws a hard line between ending and completing — and explains why only completion turns experience into wisdom you can actually carry. [Read the summary](/blog/on-completion)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-completion) - [![On Future Trading article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/0e9a823c-b7d0-46b2-9ee5-00eb19f34644/blog-on-future-trading.webp)](/blog/on-future-trading) Strategy June 28, 2026 ## [On Future Trading](/blog/on-future-trading) Almost every meaningful decision you make is a bet placed today on a value you believe might exist tomorrow. We are all trading futures — in business, in love, in health. Boaz explores how to commit fully to a future without becoming so attached to one outcome that you stop seeing reality when it changes. [Read the summary](/blog/on-future-trading)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-future-trading) - [![On Momentum article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/52fce45e-5f36-4a6d-99c7-38d39d640ea0/blog-on-momentum.webp)](/blog/on-momentum) Performance June 21, 2026 ## [On Momentum](/blog/on-momentum) You are on a downward escalator. Standing still is not maintaining — it's losing ground. Boaz maps the three phases of momentum (heavy lift, momentum, coasting), why coasting is the most dangerous because it still feels like movement, and how top performers learn to manage pace rather than worship speed. [Read the summary](/blog/on-momentum)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-momentum) - [![On Vision article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/986e3241-e33d-4848-98a2-f4adfb200300/blog-on-vision.webp)](/blog/on-vision) Leadership June 14, 2026 ## [On Vision](/blog/on-vision) A sentence on a wall is not a vision. A real vision is a way of seeing — one that reaches your calendar, your money, your body, and your relationships. Boaz's test: look at your last 48 hours and ask whether your actions are actually building the future you claim to want. [Read the summary](/blog/on-vision)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-vision) - [![On Motivation article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/1f0fcdf7-646a-4c08-8f66-edef93ee5932/blog-on-motivation.webp)](/blog/on-motivation) Performance June 7, 2026 ## [On Motivation](/blog/on-motivation) Motivation is the spark, not the fire. Waiting for it to return before acting is how capable people quietly slide from expansion to shrinking. Boaz reframes the question from "do I feel like doing this?" to "is this action expanding me or shrinking me?" — and builds the case for structure over inspiration. [Read the summary](/blog/on-motivation)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-motivation) - [![On Loss article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/a7ea601d-652c-4533-af19-03dc1b572196/blog-on-loss.webp)](/blog/on-loss) Resilience May 31, 2026 ## [On Loss](/blog/on-loss) A father speaks about his son who is no longer alive — and says he has not lost him at all. Boaz uses this as the entry point for a broader truth: what we love doesn't disappear when the form changes. The question is whether you demand the old form back, or learn to receive what remains. [Read the summary](/blog/on-loss)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-loss) - [![On Halftime article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/2c5d0334-23e0-446e-abfd-d46b4d4f9394/blog-on-halftime.webp)](/blog/on-halftime) Strategy May 24, 2026 ## [On Halftime](/blog/on-halftime) There comes a moment when motion becomes dangerous — not because the goal changed, but because you now have information you didn't have at the start. Boaz makes the case for the strategic pause: not a retreat, but an elevation. Read the scoreboard without drama, adjust the playbook without abandoning the game. [Read the summary](/blog/on-halftime)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-halftime) - [![On Doing Your Best article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/75132770-1a6b-44af-b915-81b523b2b64c/blog-on-doing-your-best.webp)](/blog/on-doing-your-best) Mindset May 17, 2026 ## [On Doing Your Best](/blog/on-doing-your-best) Much of what any meaningful goal requires is made of things you don't enjoy doing — repeatedly. The shift that separates top performers is deceptively simple: if I'm already doing it, I'll do it to the best of my current ability. That decision alone turns the task from punishment into training. [Read the summary](/blog/on-doing-your-best)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-doing-your-best) - [![On After the Plan article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/fdf4c871-3837-4aca-9d30-209d8456a803/blog-on-after-the-plan.webp)](/blog/on-after-the-plan) Strategy May 10, 2026 ## [On After the Plan](/blog/on-after-the-plan) The plan is a tool, not the destination. There always comes a point where the formula stops fitting the reality it was designed for — and the people who cling to the original design pay for it. Boaz maps the shift from executing what was planned to navigating what is actually required. [Read the summary](/blog/on-after-the-plan)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-after-the-plan) - [![On Sisyphus article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/e009e3be-1ff4-4240-9976-333397478908/blog-on-sisyphus.webp)](/blog/on-sisyphus) Mindset May 3, 2026 ## [On Sisyphus](/blog/on-sisyphus) The hunger inside top performers is real, powerful — and always unsatisfied for long. Every summit reveals another. Boaz reframes the myth of Sisyphus not as punishment but as the human condition: the point was never to reach the top and stop. The point was always the climb itself. [Read the summary](/blog/on-sisyphus)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-sisyphus) - [![On The Long Game article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/4aa65f13-1500-49b7-b4fe-68e0c11c7dd1/blog-on-the-long-game.webp)](/blog/on-the-long-game) Strategy April 26, 2026 ## [On The Long Game](/blog/on-the-long-game) Life is not made of separate victories. Health affects leadership. Leadership affects family. Family affects money. Everything touches everything — and people who optimize one domain while neglecting the system quietly lose the whole. Boaz maps how top performers layer wins, and why narrow success so often feels empty. [Read the summary](/blog/on-the-long-game)[On Substack](https://boazgilad.substack.com/p/on-the-long-game) - [![On Earthquake article cover](/__l5e/assets-v1/e5b04114-4b36-4f43-b1e5-9dd2aaa426b0/blog-on-earthquake.webp)](/blog/on-earthquake) Leadership April 19, 2026 ## [On Earthquake](/blog/on-earthquake) AI is not another technology trend. It's a force rewriting the operating system of society — and most people are still polishing skills built for the previous world. Boaz's case: the advantage belongs not to those with the right answers, but to those with the highest learning rate and the courage to move while the ground is shaking. 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