You’ve got to put yourself in the game and fail enough times, but keep trying harder and doing the things that we’ve talked about on the Coaching Hour in order to succeed.
Remember: you can’t think your way to the right action. You’ve got to act your way to the right way of thinking. You can tell yourself it’s like you to hit that target until you’re blue in the face. But you can’t lie to yourself.
If you hit that target a thousand times, the funny thing is you don’t have to tell yourself that it’s like you to hit that target. You just say, “Get out of my way and watch this.”
The ability to compete is a neurocircuit; just like learning to mount the gun, talking, public speaking, sewing up a blood vein, painting a picture, or building a deck. The more you’ve done something, the more that circuit in your brain can preload and visualize what you’re about to do.
The more comfortable you are doing it and the more you stay in the present and the more your brain can anticipate what’s coming in the future without you worrying about it, the more it can correct everything that you’re about to do and let you slip deep in that zone.
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