EWS - Efficiently Work Sport

Winning produces probably the most thrilling and desired feelings 🔥 to have in Sports.

 On this (not so) ‘Quick Bring it On’ Episode, I provide a little important tweak you can take with you around the word “WIN” .

 This one is for a deeper focus on the present moment during practice or competition (and to what the game asks from you), and a not so deep fusion with your emotionality and thinking sides that are creeping in there and becoming unhelpful.

  ( Essential Interview Mentioned is on EWS Episode #77 )

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Joining in EWS is Dr. Nick Lazaris, 👴 with +30years of Experience working on Performance areas and helping Athletes mostly regarding the perils of Anxiety.

A conversation that combines stories, examples, and applicable ideas to assist in your Sports Practice and in some tougher moments where anxiety can start to feel really big and impact negatively your performance.

Tune in if you're interested on dismantling some troubles you have been getting and obstacles you don’t know how to deal with them or simply surpass and perform more ate ease, more freely, and in the words of Dr. Nick - “Fearlessly” (we unpack more on minute 14).

 QUOTES:

“I can do this! I don’t have to be afraid. Not without anxiety, The goal is to manage it. Anxiety is not our enemy.”;

“Performing Fearlessly is about being in charge of yourself, in the present.”

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 TIMESTAMPS:

• Intro About Dr. Nick > (00:55) ;

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References:

-- Nick’s Website 

--Nick’s Presentation for Athletes Mental Toughness

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We all get triggered by some things, in some way or another. 😤 This can be good to mobilize one's energy for the sake of a good performance, or it can block an Athlete's optimal performance.

 What about being able to not letting criticism get the best out from you, and picking on the useful information that is coming from the sensitive topic pointed at?

 As the Author of this Speech, the Referee Frederik Imbo tells: “Most of us are referees at heart; we like to call throws and errors on someone else.”

 Tune in on this PotW to check out how this plays out, and how you can become better able to regulate all of this, and efficiently manage when people criticize you more harshly or point at some deficits in your performance.

 A path to E-W-S indeed, on this extended PotW.

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-- Frederik Imbo’s Tedtalk

-- About Psychotherapy

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An IQ to shake some preconditions and expectations 🤕 Athletes usually have in regards to their own levels of performance on training sessions or competition matches.

 This will inspire a reflection for yourself about your feelings and the way you look at them. Plus, on how they are influencing what you’re bringing (or being able to bring) to the pitch - to your performance.

 I hope in the end, you will not need (depend) that much of feeling X or Y to perform well (the most adapted possible - with effort) 😉

PS.: I heard this message before from Ken, but here is a link with the excerpt from an interview he gave and pronounced the quote, exploring it. 

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-- On Implementation Intentions

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A QBIO to entertain your brain for reflection (😬 vs 😳).

 How does the prospect of regret may influence your sporting practice (on training ground and during competitions)? How so, being embarrassed for some mistake, may contain a gem to be picked for learning?

 Examples are provided, and with this one, I would really love if you wrapped your mind around this and delve in it a bit more. So for that, you can share more by going on the 3rd link below:

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This one is to highlight 💤 the essential roles of Sleep towards serving Performance levels.

 I’ve studied for a month from 2 world-known experts on this field, and I lay out here some theoretical considerations about Sleep + I talk about the evidence out there in relation with Athletes and Sleep, coming from two super Fresh Reviews of Science Literature, from 2019 and 2021 (links below).

 The purpose for this is right upon stressing how Sleep is a main pillar for the maintenance of high levels of performance and learning (including motor-skill development), and our Health in general.

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TIMESTAMPS:

• Initial Thoughts + Importance of Sleep > (01:18) ;

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REFERENCES:

- Book 'Why We Sleep'  

- Discover Chronotypes   &   Other Questionnaire  

- Study 1 & Study 2 

- Image 1 & Image 2

- EWS Curated Playlists  

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A talk about 🚧 “overcoming obstacles to excellence” - and more! This is just to honor our guest’s motto in the work he does as a Clinical and Sport Psychologist in the USA - Dr. Eddie O’Connor.

 This one filled me of joy, and I consider this one of the most useful and essential for any athlete!

 Hands-on approaches are shared for athletes to relate better with themselves in tougher times, as well as managing unhelpful feelings and reactions related with performance.

 Our conversation ranged on topics like Failure (one’s perceptions and reactions around that), the traits and menaces about Positive Thinking, around his motto “Overcoming Obstacles to Excellence”, and still about Doing one’s best in the present moment, plus other stories related to psychological experiences during sporting events.

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 QUOTES:

 “There’s always something naturally human that keeps getting in the way. We’re all motivated (...) Motivation for what?”

“Ashamed of the quote on old BC: “Because Average isn’t good enough”

“If Excellence in your mind is achieving a gold medal, that’s a terrible message. You got (many other achievements). Excellence is a Personal Standard”

“(...) It’s a poisonous way that we do as humans, and it’s catastrophic to performers. Because they have nothing to do with us. (...) When we start comparing we start to lose focus on what we can control.”

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 TIMESTAMPS:

• Intro/About Guest + Interview > (01:07) ;

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 References:

• About Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Source 1 | Source 2  ;

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On prioritizing Mental Training 🧠 (and Mental Health). A set of reports from an elite NFL player - Russel Wilson, retrieving from a TedTalk he gave.

 A great 6min informal speech naturalizing life hardships in sports contexts, and sharing a few stories from himself, and how he went about them coping the most efficiently possible.

 He speaks, about shifting gears to neutral to regain some mental balance, as it also helps to get ready to perform (even under pressure(s)).

-- NOTE: This was a script prepared by our colleague Diogo Resende, a Psychologist currently working at a Portuguese 1st Division Soccer Club

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-- The TedTalk from Russel

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A critical element 🚣‍♂️ for any process of learning or improvement: BELIEF.

 To believe that oneself is capable of improving is often considered as the pivotal aspect that must accompany a person so that that improvement occurs.  

 We all also know that this is too broad of a matter, and that it often sounds as a motivational cliché. Like: “believe in yourself! You are capable of anything” type of statements.

 Either way, from this episode, I want to show a power within ‘believing on improvement’ (two key words!). Alongside that, I wanted to draw on some behavioral implications this aspect has on one’s efforts and training.

 As a quote from Terry Orlick says: “As your beliefs about limits change, the limits change”. How’s been yours?

 PS: Cristiano Ronaldo just broke another record: all-time best scorer for National teams - 111goals. And many people (including himself often mentioning) attribute this astronomical success to believing one can do it and cultivating a desire to improve and get closer to those big goals.

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A Special Episode for EWS! 🦸‍♂️ It is with one of our most seeked Sport Psychologists, Dan Abrahams, and it is in a new format - I prepared some topics in a PowerPoint presentation, where me and Dan went along live talking about them.

 It was one of the hardest Interviews to prepare so far, since I knew Dan could cover many topics with expertise and eloquence. That’s why I decided to change the style a bit and found it to be one of EWS’ most complete conversations. We've covered a range of themes on: 

 - Identity of the Player/Athlete (Balance, Mental Health, and Management of other issues) ; Guided Discovery (to help on Learning Processes + CLA Theory) ; Alertness (on Focus and important in-field aspects) ; Stretch-Support Balance Principle ; Self-Efficacy (A 4 Component Model and how Coaches can stimulate this on Athletes) ; Mental Toughness (Tweaks on the concept and elements to inspire a Mental Skillset) ; Achievement Goal Theory (one’s ego, and mastering processes).

 NOTE: To remind you that this was inspired on several posts Dan produces consistently on Social Media (especially LinkedIn juicy ones) - Sooo --- Here is the PPT Presentation that you can follow along

--> Make sure to visit Dan’s renowned Podcast “The Sport Psych Show” - a main reference for us since the beginning in this path to E-W-S!  

Quotes:

- “In training, from a Cognitive perspective, we need simple tasks and tougher tasks. We need to introduce ‘desirable difficulties’ (such as variability, spacing) (...) we have a greater chance to learn what we’re trying to learn - to improve.”

 - “Great coaches coach explicitly and implicitly ... (on Discovery Learning)”

 - “(...) language areas in our brains are linked to body functions. That’s why I do a lot of work around language with players - whether it it is around narratives for the game, or specific cues tu use in a game.”

Timestamps:

• Overview & Dan’s Intro (Passion for Sports)> (01:00 - 06:38) ;

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References:

- Dan's Website + Dan's Profile

- On Motor Development Expert Mark Williams 

- Psychological Safety from Edmonson

- Lisa Feldman Articles

- A peek about Carol Dweck’s original Book ‘Self-Theories’ - precursor of the Growth Mindset  

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