Motivation
The degree an individual is driven to action toward a particular outcome.
What is motivation?
What's Important Now
What is WIN?
I can use this traffic analogy to gauge where I am before & during a performance.
What is the traffic light?
The degree of certainty about one's capabilities to perform actions toward a desired outcome.
What is confidence?
It could also be called attention control training.
What is mindfulness?
The type of motivation that comes from outside you, but is often less powerful and lasting than motivation from within.
What is External or Extrinsic Motivation?
Broad External, Broad Internal, Narrow Internal, Narrow External
What are the different ways we direct & shift our attention?
It's the king of all recovery techniques.
What is sleep?
The type of Mindset that allows a person to learn from failures and gain confidence.
What is growth mindset?
T/F: Chair flying only happens with your eyes closed.
Falso: Chair flying happens anytime the brain runs a simulation. Visualization is not an event. It’s a brain function.
Any time your brain runs a simulation of a future, past, or hypothetical situation — you are visualizing. If your brain is projecting, predicting, or replaying — you’re visualizing.
Tapping into your values to motivate yourself is an example of this type of motivation.
What is Internal Motivation?
Priming, Cueing, and Pattern Recognition
What are the 3 ways to make (performance) perception faster?
It's when you breath horizontally as opposed to vertically.
What is diaphragmatic breathing?
Gaining confidence by watching another pilot succeed.
What is modeling (or vicarious experience)?
Pre-performance habits that help performers prepare mentally and physically to perform their best.
What are Readiness Routines?
This type of motivation is tied to who you see yourself as or want to become.
What is Identity?
The type of Practice that can make performance perception faster.
What is deliberate practice?
Individual Zone of Optimal Performance
What is IZOP (or IZOF)?
Framing a challenge as an opportunity rather than a threat is an example of this.
What is Selective Interpretation (effective self-talk)?
Dividing a performance into manageable chunks like Usain Bolt did with the 100m dash.
What is segmenting?
Doing something because it is inherently enjoyable or satisfying.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
Sensory Overload, Paralysis by Analysis, Rumination, Tunnel Vision
What are attention errors.
A mental state of complete focus and optimal performance, often described as feeling and performing at one’s best.
What is a flow state?
I can use this tool to gain confidence if I've never done something before and to also "fix" mistakes.
What is chair flying?
When you effectively manage mental & physical symptoms of stress to perform under pressure.
What is composure?