How to Dance Without Trying to Dance
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- Put another way, it doesn’t realise that it itself is the problem and, without seeing what’s going on, it tries to shut itself up by yelling more and more loudly at itself. This is the experience you have inside your head when you ‘overthink’ and what happens when people ‘choke’ in a sports context. It’s a vicious thinking trap that goes like this:
- The trick, the way out of the trap, is merely to notice that The Tryer is trying to involve itself. Just notice it and then don’t do anything about it. Leave the ‘the problem’ unsolved.
How to Dance Without Trying to Dance
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Highlights
- Put another way, it doesn’t realise that it itself is the problem and, without seeing what’s going on, it tries to shut itself up by yelling more and more loudly at itself. This is the experience you have inside your head when you ‘overthink’ and what happens when people ‘choke’ in a sports context. It’s a vicious thinking trap that goes like this:
- The trick, the way out of the trap, is merely to notice that The Tryer is trying to involve itself. Just notice it and then don’t do anything about it. Leave the ‘the problem’ unsolved.