Moment 57 - Why You Need To Forget About The End Result: Sir David Brailsford

Uh Definitely felt very original. When when I was reading about um your philosophy is this idea of forgetting about the results. Because thinking about the result or the outcome of your performance can reduce the chances of success in that performance. That's very unusual because in in teams in

competition in business, we think about the result, we think about closing the deal, or you know, what and what that will mean. And we kind of in imagine ourselves in that moment of getting the medal around our neck or that business deal one. Why is that Not a good idea. Well, if if if if an event happens or something happens, the first thing's gonna happen to you without you even knowing is you're gonna have an unconscious emotional reaction to it. And it'll it's emotion. It's not you're not thinking it through, it's just purely emotion. And that that that's gonna be, you know, either it's sort of a fight flight freeze response really

And um but that that emotional s um response will happen. Quicker than you know it. before you can go in and and get any logic or get any rationale into into it. And of course in um in any kind of situation like a you know, what could be perceived as a threat state where you're putting yourself in in some kind of threatening scenario, be it damage my pride or You know, what people what happens to people they start thinking, Well what happens if I win?

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