Kata is the same moves a thousand times so they’re still there when your heart is pounding.
RESILIENCE
WHAT THIS MEANS
Under real pressure you do not get to think clearly, so whatever you have practised to the point of boredom is what stays available. Repetition is not really about the repetitions. It is about building something that runs without your attention, because your attention will be busy elsewhere. That is why training looks so much duller than the moment it is for.
Pick the one thing you will need when your heart is pounding, whether that is an opening line, a free throw, or how to start an essay, and rehearse it past the point where it is interesting. Twenty quiet repetitions beat one dramatic one.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What have you practiced enough to do with your heart pounding?
MORE IN ADVERSITY, PRESSURE & RESILIENCE
- Hearing a patient say “today was a good day” when it barely looked like one rewrites what a good day means.
- The scoreboard says you lost. Your splits say you got faster. Both are true. Pick which one you study.
- Your first month at a new job, you’ll feel slow. Everyone does. The good ones keep asking questions.
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