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Ageless Peak Performance : The Playbook for AI-Powered Excellence - Ted Yang

Ageless Peak Performance

The Playbook for AI-Powered Excellence

By: Ted Yang, Andrew Winston (Foreword by)

Hardcover | 18 May 2026

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Your best years can last far longer than you think.

Traditional peak performance follows a brutal arc: you spend your twenties and thirties building expertise, hit your stride for maybe 10-15 years, then watch as your edge slowly erodes. Conventional wisdom says this is inevitable, but AI Adopters are rewriting that story.

A new class of high performers are extending their prime from 10-15 years to an astonishing 50-60 years. They're strategically deploying AI as cognitive leverage to compensate for what declines with age (processing speed, working memory) while amplifying what improves with age (pattern recognition, judgment, strategic thinking).

For experienced professionals, this means maintaining and elevating your output as your forties become your fifties and beyond. Your accumulated expertise becomes more valuable when AI handles the cognitive grunt work that used to slow you down.

For younger strivers, this means compressing the expertise-building phase from decades to years. AI scaffolds knowledge, accelerates iteration, and lets you punch above your weight class from day one. Then you maintain that edge for the rest of your career.

Using chatbots to write emails isn't what this is about. It's about fundamentally restructuring how you think, learn, execute, and sustain excellence. It's about building an AI team that makes you superhuman in domains that matter. It's about becoming an AI Adopter - someone who doesn't just use AI tools, but who has reimagined their relationship with cognitive work itself.

Inside, you'll find:

  • Principles that persist no matter which AI tool you use
  • Superpowers you can deploy immediately at work and at home
  • Practices that turn sporadic AI use into sustained cognitive advantage
  • How your Team can perform at its collective peak
  • The Mindset to work hand-in-hand with machines without losing what makes you human

Your next 50-60 years of peak performance are waiting. Ageless Peak Performance shows you how to claim them.

Industry Reviews

"The workforce is changing faster than ever. The leaders who thrive will be those who learn to understand and manage AI. Ted Yang has written the practical, no-hype guide to doing exactly that without losing what makes us human." - Ned Lamont, Governor of the State of Connecticut

"Ageless Peak Performance reframes learning as a lifelong advantage in the age of AI. Ted Yang shows how technology, used thoughtfully, helps people grow, adapt, and contribute at their highest level at any stage of life. Not something to fear. Something to master. " - Miguel Cardona, 12th United States Secretary of Education

"I approached artificial intelligence initially with skepticism. This book changed my mind. Ted Yang shows how AI used wisely can be a great equalizer, bridging opportunity gaps for people everywhere, whether in Addis Ababa or Washington, in boardrooms or classrooms. The AI revolution will either widen the gap between haves and have-nots, or close it. Throughout history, access to tools has determined who rises. Ted Yang has written the guide to wielding this one-not for the privileged few, but for anyone with the will to learn." - HIH Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie, grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie I

"Ted Yang does an amazing job telling easy to understand stories about a complex and critical technological shift happening in front of and around us all. His great insights into what to do and how to engage are worthy of your reading time. And his story telling style makes it enjoyable. Learn and enjoy!" -Nick Donofrio, IBM Fellow and Former EVP Innovation and Technology, Member, National Academy of Engineering, Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, Board of Directors, AMD.

"As a CTO, I've watched brilliant engineers plateau with their speed declining while juniors surge ahead. Ted Yang flips this script with a framework for using AI to offset cognitive decline while amplifying the judgment only experience provides. His four principles cut through the hype and the 90-day plan is essential reading for any technical leader serious about extending their team's peak performance for decades." - Matt Swann, Former CTO Booking.com and NuBank

"The best AI doesn't replace human judgment, it sharpens it. Ted Yang understands that better than most. Ageless Peak Performance is a practical guide to using AI as a true partner, one that makes you superhuman in the domains that matter, while keeping you fully in the driver's seat. The guidance here isn't just for individuals - great teams will benefit too." - Shishir Mehrotra, CEO Superhuman, Board of Directors, Walmart

"Every day, I speak with CEOs who are navigating the same quiet question: In a world where AI is accelerating everything, what happens to human advantage? Ted Yang's answer is bracing and liberating. This isn't about writing faster emails; it's about rewriting the lifespan of CEO leadership." - Robert Reiss, CEO, The CEO Forum Group, Best-Selling Author of The Transformative CEO

"What Ted Yang captures so crisply is not just that we have fleeting windows where peak competence and peak energy coincide. But that AI can extend your peak energy exactly at the moment you achieve a leadership role. This is when leveraging your team skills together with AI becomes more valuable than success as an individual." - Charles Bralver, Chairman Sigma7Risk, Co-Founder Oliver Wyman & Co.

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