"Do you believe in God?"
"Yes"
"Have you ever seen God in person"
"No"
"Have you witnessed yourself run fast and perform well numerous times?"
"Yes"
"How can you have so much faith in something you've never seen, but no faith in something you see every day: yourself."
How do you handle pressure?
"Yes"
"Have you ever seen God in person"
"No"
"Have you witnessed yourself run fast and perform well numerous times?"
"Yes"
"How can you have so much faith in something you've never seen, but no faith in something you see every day: yourself."
How do you handle pressure?
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It tries to convince you that you aren't ready, that those doubts and insecurities are real, that you shouldn't even start the race. Our attention and memory gets biased toward the negative. We get stuck in a doom cycle.
Before competition, I liked to think of the job of the coach as to get them out of the doom spiral.
We've got to:
1. Dislodge from a bad prediction
2. Re-align with one that gives hope
Sometimes that means reinforcing their ability. Looking them in the eye and saying "you are ready to win this."
What seldom works? "Relax"
In the history of telling people to relax, l'm not sure it ever has worked.
Your brain interprets it as: "I must look like an anxious"
In a study on baseball players, the emotional state of the coach predicted the emotional state and performance of the players. If a coach was angry, players grew more frustrated, made more errors, and were more likely to tank.
Our emotions are contagious
What state do they need to be in to perform?. And how can I get them there.
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