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Performance is a complex function of ability and psychology.
Ability is cumulative - it adds on prior base like your belly fat 🥳
It is like a Fixed Deposit....keeps accumulating.
Performance is a complex function of ability and psychology.
Ability is cumulative - it adds on prior base like your belly fat 🥳
It is like a Fixed Deposit....keeps accumulating.
Psychology is cyclical. It meanders from low (lower than your ability justifies/underconfidence) to high (higher than your ability justifies/overconfidence) 
Positive feedback or performance boosts your morale. This raises your future performances, leading to more success. Till you reach a stage of overconfidence in your abilities and meet failure.
The failure lowers your confidence. This creates doubts & fear, which impacts your future performance. Successive failures result in confidence plummeting, till your ability causes law of averages to kick in and provide some morale boosting success.
So, as you can see, we tend to gyrate between a positive virtuous loop of success-high confidence-success and a vicious loop of failure-low confidence-failure.
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There are times when you caught in the vicious web of low confidence. Your physiology is closely associated with how you feel. When you feel low, you don't feel like doing anything. You feel like just crashing onto your bed.
How to catapult from the vicious web to the virtuous loop?
You can fool yourself into a virtuous loop by inducing small victories. Create small challenges & win!
Sprint hard
Lift weights
Play a game against a weak opponent
Read an uplifting book
Watch a movie
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You can fool yourself into a virtuous loop by inducing small victories. Create small challenges & win!
Sprint hard
Lift weights
Play a game against a weak opponent
Read an uplifting book
Watch a movie
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During childhood days, I used to play TT with my younger brother on our dining table. There were times, when I used to lose some critical points deliberately to pull him out of a demoralising rut. Often, he used to start hitting winners again to the extent that...
he started dominating games and I started losing. The proverbial tables were often turned, just by losing some critical points!
Here's the thing:
Treat "I don't feel like doing anything" as a signal that you are in a spiralling vicious web of low confidence. Break out of the web by inducing small wins. Exercise, sprinting & lifting weights is one of the simplest options, in my humble opinion.
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Treat "I don't feel like doing anything" as a signal that you are in a spiralling vicious web of low confidence. Break out of the web by inducing small wins. Exercise, sprinting & lifting weights is one of the simplest options, in my humble opinion.
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