# Episode 230 | Stuart McMillan on Systems Thinking, Creativity, and the "Philosopher-Coach" Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-morning-shakeout-podcast-1128684/episode-230-stuart-mcmillan-on-systems-thinking-creativity-and-the-philosopher-coach Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-morning-shakeout-podcast-1128684/episode-230-stuart-mcmillan-on-systems-thinking-creativity-and-the-philosopher-coach.md Podcast: [the morning shakeout podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-morning-shakeout-podcast-1128684) Published: 2023-10-09T23:13:50+00:00 Episode link: https://themorningshakeout.com/episode-230-stuart-mcmillan-on-systems-thinking-creativity-and-the-philosopher-coach/ Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/61bb951645cc6900145d924a/e/6524892fcb3bd40012cb1d6e/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-morning-shakeout-podcast-1128684/episodes/episode-230-stuart-mcmillan-on-systems-thinking-creativity-and-the-philosopher-coach Duration seconds: 6833 ## Resource This week's episode of the podcast is with Stuart McMillan, widely regarded as one of the best sprint coaches in the world. Stu has worked with both professional and amateur athletes in a variety of sports with a focus on power and speed development. He’s personally coached over 70 Olympians at nine Olympic Games, over 30 of whom have won Olympic medals. In addition to his hands-on work with athletes, Stu runs ALTIS , an organization that trains athletes and educates coaches to perform at the highest level. In this conversation, which easily would have gone another couple hours if we hadn’t run out of time, Stu and I cover a wide range of topics, from coffee and music to Stu’s former life as a DJ. We get into all things coaching, including how Stu got his start and how his approach has evolved over the past 30 years, creativity and how it influences his work, the role of the “philosopher-coach” and putting an emphasis on critical thinking and question asking, taking a systems approach to working with athletes and life in general, and so, so much more. This episode is brought to you by: — Tracksmith. If you buy anything on  Tracksmith.com , and you’re doing so for the first time, use the code MarioNEW to save $15 on your order of $75 or more. If you’re already a Tracksmith customer, use the code MarioGIVE and you can get free shipping on your next order and 5% of your purchase will go to support  the Friendly House  in Worcester, Massachusetts, an organization that is near and dear to me. Click here for complete show notes and sign up here to get the morning shakeout email newsletter delivered to your inbox every Tuesday. Music and editing for this episode of the morning shakeout podcast by John Summerford . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-morning-shakeout-podcast-1128684/episodes/episode-230-stuart-mcmillan-on-systems-thinking-creativity-and-the-philosopher-coach/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-morning-shakeout-podcast-1128684/episode-230-stuart-mcmillan-on-systems-thinking-creativity-and-the-philosopher-coach.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.