If you watch professional athletes, performing at their very highest level, you’ll notice that they spend a lot of time ‘in the zone’. Sometimes they may slip in and out of it, but when they’re truly performing at their best, it’s as if nothing could disturb their focus. It’s not an inward-looking focus, blocking out the sights and sounds around them. It’s a focus that is perfectly balanced between an awareness of their own physicality and movement, and the changing environment around them. And it’s not just the level of focus that seems to be perfectly balanced, so too is their level of
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