Why train your brain? Why put effort and energy
into developing mental skills? The most compelling reason
I can offer is this: you are doing it anyway. Everyday you
are giving yourself certain messages about what kind of
athlete you are and what you’re capable of. Everyday
you are rehearsing responses to stress, mistakes, anxiety
and adversity. You can call this your “default”
program. Everyday it is reinforced as it determines how
you manage your experiences.
You have the choice to leave this program running as is,
or to begin to begin the reprogramming process. Start by
knowing your existing program. How does it operate? Where
is it effective and not effective? Watch long enough and
you will know where you want to make changes. Since your
mind will not deliver a “your mind has performed an
illegal operation” notice, you’ll have to develop
your own virus software.
So think about this: as far as I know most of you are taking
your brains to your sport each day (ignore what coaches
say when they’re having a bad day). So you have a
choice, pay attention to what that mind of yours is doing
and not doing for you or don’t- let it play unsupervised.
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