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he needed to shift his mindset to a place where the work was only just beginning.
It’s a constant dedication to habits and values that can be isolating.
when things get hard, you push harder; when you fail, you get back up stronger; when you don’t see results, you don’t get discouraged, but you just continue to pound away day, after day, after day, with relentlessness, consistency, heart, and passion—that’s grit.
In no competitive or life scenario will focusing on negative uncontrollable factors improve your performance or stress levels.
humans only improve through adversity by embracing short-term pain.
We need to struggle because the struggle is what makes us better—the struggle is itself the journey.
Humans naturally fear adversity, which is ironic because adversity is the only thing that makes us better.
provide the opportunity to become a better version of yourself.
The answer lies in a definition of confidence that goes against conventional wisdom. People think confidence is the belief that you have the ability to win, or at least to compete with the best. But that’s not what confidence is, or where it comes from. Confidence has nothing to do with outcome. It can’t. Because I don’t care how good you are, but in most sports you aren’t going to “win” most of the time.
Confidence doesn’t come from knowing that you control the outcome of a given event or moment. It comes from knowing that you control your response to a given event. Confidence is about your competitive drive, your focus, positivity, perseverance, and grit, and whether you can maintain those characteristics when it matters most. Can you maintain the characteristics of a champion, regardless of what life throws at you? If you can—that’s confidence.
The process is about focusing on the steps to success rather than worrying about the result.
Are we going to live in that moment for longer than we need to?”
“Being clutch is not the hole-in-one to win; it’s the well-struck shot close to the flag and the putt that drops in with the tournament on the line. It’s the precisely executed series of plays in football, not the Hail Mary pass. It’s the fortitude to continue battling out a Wimbledon final as you always have—even though the whole world is wondering whether you are going to choke.”
Clutch, simply put, is the ability to do what you can do normally under immense pressure.
