A collection of articles focused on how to enhance individual performance in sports, the arts and other areas of performance
Adam Nisbet 2012 World Champion for Long Distance Ocean Ski
Can you share a bit of background on your situation and how things were for you before you started using some of the Raising Talent principles and techniques?
I am a 24 year old professional surf ski paddler from Durban.
I began my sporting career as a swimmer and surf lifesaver where I excelled in the junior ranks. However I always struggled with the mental aspect in performing consistently, and …
When it comes to performance there is an inner game and an outer game. Training and development in sports and business is typically focused on the outer game – what you do and how you do it (Technique) and occasionally when you do it and why you do it (Strategy or experience). However if your inner game, in the form of your beliefs and your mindset doesnt support you using your Trained Ability or applying the lessons you have …
Think about when you are playing your favourite PS3 Sports game and your player has attributes – skills or abilities. Most athletes are like this, they have different skills that they have honed and developed which is a combination of their mindset and their training which is enhanced by their learning. What people dont talk about is that unless you are 100% in the Now and 100% in your high performance mood, you are not going to be playing at …
As a child I remember stretching on my tippy toes and touching the Number 3 hot plate on my parents’ stove – which happened to be on a Number 4 heat setting at the time. The result? Screams, tears and swollen fingers. The pain was instant and so was the lesson. What did I learn? Logically I should have learnt to be wary of the No 3 plate on temperature 4: that was the context of the lesson and that …
Remember when you were back at school and how intense and challenging your first exams/tests were? Then by the next year of exams/tests, it was that same intensity again, only this time harder – and the previous year looked easy. This is perspective. What feels hard and difficult now will seem easier and less challenging when looking back from the future. So if that is true, lets use this principle to our advantage.
Method:
1. Identify what you are struggling …