You can’t catch the pass while your eyes are on the scoreboard.

Attention on the result takes attention off the thing that produces it. Checking the score mid-play feels like staying informed, but in the seconds you are looking up, the actual opportunity is arriving and leaving. A score is a record of things already done, and you cannot do anything to a record.

Notice where your eyes go when it matters this week, in a game or a test or a conversation. Put them on the next action rather than on how you are doing. You can check the standing afterward, when there is nothing in the air to catch.