Episode 23 · 56:15
Mindset of an athlete
Athletic mindset is often reduced to intensity, but Dan and Tom look at the quieter disciplines beneath performance: repetition, recovery, coaching and returning after a poor result.
They explore how those habits transfer into creative and business work without importing the unhealthy idea that every day should feel like competition.
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What to take with you
- Confidence grows from evidence built in training, not a speech delivered before the event.
- Review a result for information without turning it into an identity.
- Recovery protects the quality of the next repetition.
- Borrow the athlete’s consistency while leaving room for the different demands of creative work.
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[Music] don't believe [Music] I feel shattered I said it was still three am oh wow I'll fix an issue fix a bug on my own project it's all my own fault so I'll take it all with a pinch of salt so you'll come in um I was going to say ringtone but that doesn't make sense separate jingle about coming in hot yeah we should probably put that out as a competition as well and have people submit also I can't like you know and.
You can't clear your eyes so he's like rubbing your eyes just get like so you can see properly um but yeah I set up till 3am working on a bit of a so wicking on the the Welsh AI thing I wanted the the copy ought to be at the bottom but when I'm I'm trying to basically export it to be an iPhone app but because iPhone had as a larger it's covering the text so I need to dynamically measure.
The height of the header and the footer and minus it out of the page so I can position it correctly but for some reason it didn't seem to be liking it so I was like cool this is future dance problem that's good how did you stay up till three like what what what was the cutoff point was it the frustration of I can't do this right now or is it I'm too tired I'm gonna do a bad job so I'm just gonna full stop.
And convert a couple of point so the cutoff point is you know it's three o'clock and you know it's gonna massively impact you next morning and your next day now I'm running a session facilitating a session tonight in our home group so I'm also like I need to be fresh for that bring the energy and you always recognize when somebody's like if somebody's tired and lackluster then it impacts your ability to take it in right even with people watching the podcast I'm sure.
That the days that we're like more energetic and more like on it intense with some sort of like pause Vibes um chances are it's more infectious rather than like hey so I've went to bed at 3am and like low energy it kind of like if you come into the room you affect people right so yeah it was the cutoff point and also that I wasn't getting like the more that I was trying I wasn't necessarily getting into a.
Better place so I was like cool need a fresh head come back to it later um and it's 3am so yeah it's it's one of those things and it's only because at 11 o'clock or like half 11 or midnight your brain is like you're really inspired right now aren't you maybe you should do that thing that you've been thinking about and then I'm like always ride that Creative Energy because you don't know when it's going to turn up not that it's in short supply but you.
Just want to like ride the energy right so I was like okay cool I'm gonna ride the energy I'm gonna do this and then you end up not looking at the clock it goes two o'clock not looking at the clock and then goes like it comes to like 20 to three and you're like yeah I should probably do this now my Apple watch stats like the last two weeks I've been going to bed more consistently at three o'clock than anything else so my I.
Need to up my Apple stats so I'm going to bed at like the traditional schedule so maybe you should schedule so it basically nudges you on your wrist like half an hour an hour before bedtime to basically say prep yourself you're going to bed rather than prep yourself absolutely I I always have the schedule the schedule says hey it's 11 o'clock maybe you should wind down and I'm like baby it's a windup yeah it's basically a wind-up alert because I think basically.
Because you're um rebellious having someone to say get ready to wind down is actually when you're waking up so actually you should have that get ready to wind down at two in the afternoon and then you might have a buzz of like working really well in an afternoon yeah shut up and tell me what to do I'm gonna do my own thing shut up crime Yeah a hundred percent I think it's about um I feel like that manipulation that.
Should be your trick next week just change it to a more really a standard yeah creative it does feel like it's I'm being stolen from it feels like hey it's 11 o'clock you need to go to bed now I'm like but there's still hours there's still like productivity hours um so that's what my mind thinks I'm like but I could do something really cool in the next two three hours and it would be worth it and yeah I'll feel.
Rough in the morning but I personally think that's worth it if it's been productive and to be honest if we're talking about hours of effort even when it comes to like fixing a bug you know that it might take roughly five hours of effort so if you've put two in now like that's good because you're like closer to the end point I know it might be like oh two bad hours is you know nowhere near one good hour and all that.
Stuff but I'm like yeah it is what it is I'm definitely a night owl naturally and all it would be is like shift my time I'm not a nine to five person really I would much prefer to be like getting up later and staying up later I think I think my body clock is a 8 till 12 maybe 8 to 11 work and then probably like 11 A.M well that's it like I think what we've not realized is Conformity to the nine.
To five to the nine till three when you're in school I don't think that like factually that's not everybody and what we're trying to do is like claim that that is everybody um already there's been Trials of doing the four hour work week sorry not four hour four day work week LOL um and already they've seen a difference in retention um people kind of like taking uh time off or like feel sorry feeling burnt out and so forth so it's already having a.
Positive impact and it doesn't look like it's necessarily having a negative impact on income um it's kind of like I think there's definitely room to experiment more with people's uniqueness especially because you can work with somebody across the globe so well I always work with people in the states or you know you have chats of people in Singapore or you have chats with people in Europe or whatever like to think that you can't do it at those times and those hours is just like maybe.
You're missing out on a potential right um so trialing stuff out um is well with it because it might be a better iteration that you would just have never experienced never tested with um but anyway so today I wanted to talk about uh mindset um I think it's quarter to one and I was like I need to stop watching this F1 series on Netflix I know an alarm is going off at six a.m yeah for sure for sure it's like the the.
Dreaded thing right um yeah so you've obviously been watching the F1 um documentary on Netflix and also the golf documentary you have watched the basketball documentary right with uh uh Michael Jordan's yeah I always like the coaching ones even the American Football ones um when it's like nothing to lose ones I think they're called methodology Amazon like I've been watching loads of them most recent oh I also watched the tennis one there's a real clear pattern specifically with the individual sports.
Around mindset the tennis one and the and the um the golf one are really fascinating now I've started to play Squash again and doing it mainly for sport because I don't do much sport at all I'm also at my computer than in a gym or anything like that um so in doing that I've realized um Jack my mate that I'm playing with he used to be like um what's it called when you do like five sports all in one.
Less an athlete right um like a triathlon or something yeah yeah pentathon try plus two Athlon yeah try plus two Athlon um I think it's pentathon um and basically his mindset is super fascinating which I think is the same as you so we will come to your mindset in a second especially being like hockey and stuff in sport um there's a real clear mindset of determination of focus there's also a clear mindset of like I'm not good enough.
Um like once you start losing it's like I don't want to be here so the the power of the mind to control your mind is so important like there was a line in the golfing one broadly speaking it's mechanical so the physical aspect of golf is mechanical and you can perfect that but the differentiator is the mindset so again the mindset what I what we're saying when we say that word is like your inner mind your inner thoughts.
Your inner thoughts and what you're thinking and what you're feeling as you are losing as you are winning when things are going well when things are going badly like generally speaking when you come up to approach a competition and stuff so I I'm like thirsty to kind of refine my mindset to adapt my squash game to win more often win more often because I'm thinking strategically rather than uh just like playing and like mistakes are happening on my side.
Or mistakes are happening on his side for me to win points so like talk to me about you know your mindsets and some of Europe around you know team sport versus individual sport because I definitely think I want my children to do individual Sports to gear mindset and take that mindset from Sport and apply it to business and apply it to life and go so I just thought I think it's just I think they're two different type of ball games I think if you're a.
Control freak I think you're doing your own sport massively helps but from a perspective of if you ever feel alone or the pressure gets to you because you feel like it's all on your shoulders being in a team environment massively helps and I've sort of done a bit of both because I used to do a lot of Athletics type stuff for school but then I'd always used to play football or hockey in more outside of school so I do.
All the winnings and the awards and you know exactly where you went wrong or where you were right on like let's say doing like a 400 meter race you know when you actually should have pushed yourself or when you let the race go so it's more I would say a clear cut analytics more so rather than from a place of I find it funny how we say mindset but actually I think there's a lot with a the emotional element to it and I think.
It's like when your team loses you loses the head but you're still playing well or like you think you can grind out a result like a drawer or a win if you just play consistent but everyone else has lost it and it goes one of two ways you either get the next goal and then go on a run and then the sort of ebb and flow of the game goes in your favor or you just crumble under the pressure and then.
Concede loads of goals and then a close game could be like getting thrushed yeah which is basically like and when you say losing the head it broadly is around Focus right and determination Focus to be like not make silly mistakes and give the ball away but then determinations to score goals if you're behind and score goals if you're ahead really right determination to stay ahead or or to catch up and go beyond right and I guess it's belief in your own that you trust.
Your system that you've put in enough hours to work out or to train to you know if you just consistently have a go at the goal you're more likely going to score than not so you just need to make sure that you're taking shots of the goal and you'll win probability game yeah yeah my um Jack roommate he um he basically has a mindset that is like he wants to be utterly certain that he has trained harder than you so when it.
Comes to like the normal day-to-day prior to the event of competition he always wants to get up and do his training um because he knows that one day that he doesn't do it could be the one day that Dan does do it and therefore he's not trained as much as me so he doesn't have certainty that he is excuse me that he's trained um more than kind of thing than the other person so I'm fascinated with that mindset because.
What if someone doesn't train as well as you and they win are you more like I gave it my all I'm okay with it it's more of a justification with your self performance or you even more Furious because it's like you've you've studied for an exam but your friend didn't and then you've got a better Mark so you're really angry and don't understand so related in that world it's all dependent on how they won so for example if they.
Weren't in a fluke way right where it was maybe it was you were giving or like I was giving away points or they were getting fluky shots and they won then there would be a sense of frustration right because really the secondary narrative is also he also wants to know that the competition is at their best so in some ways if I'm like oh I'm tired or whatever beating me is not the best iteration because I'm not at my best the.
Most satisfaction kind of win for him is like he knows that he's trained more than me and that I'm at my absolute Peak and he still wins so if I'm fluking and like he's like losing shots for example that would be like more so frustrating um because it wasn't necessarily the best of game but I think if it's a categorical best game I was absolutely my best and I uh beat him because let's say for argument's sake there was a.
Sense that I trained more or spent more hours right then there's an absolute self-reflection of how do I beat him next time what can I improve and what's really interesting is that it's so like um so self-reflective of his own ability and the enjoyment of the analytical side of like Okay cool so I am giving it my all but I noticed I was like when he's serving he's basically serving it over my head and I'm not able to attack so if.
I can perfect attacking the ball because as soon as it goes over my head my backhand's not good enough to get out of the corner or whatever it is so it then jumps into like analytics really um to kind of like understand that cool so long as I know that this person was at their best um then that's okay then it goes into like a how do I improve mindset which I think is incredibly fascinating incredibly fascinating and I would say.
That person is a killer salesperson so this is why I said like take those mindsets and kind of apply them to business so yeah like really really fascinating really fascinating so I would say it's that kind of stuff but how because how you how do you deal with like losses it varies if they let it happen yeah if if they were genuinely the better team I'm happily put my hands up and be like it was their day it wasn't mine yeah um.
To some extent that's the easiest route if it was a close game I'd be frustrated because I'll either know why we lost it being in a team sport it'll either be um a group of people defense Midfield attack or myself or whatever um but I was speaking to Dan last night about team sports and how I've done a course on triggers and how now watching sports games and and watching this Formula One and uh golf and seeing people slightly lose it's like I totally.
Understand how it's like you've got a flaming ball of anger just in you that that you to something you need to let out somehow but in a safe manner but I don't think I've been particularly good at letting it out because I'll just sit on it and stew in it and then it would affect like my weekend or a couple of days and that's the thing if you hang out with people that don't do sports or don't do.
Sports on that type of competitive level it's hard to even communicate that because I felt like because I took Sports so seriously to some on some level it would massively affect my weekend or week or until I'm training next but other people like oh just take it easy it's fine and I was like I don't get that mindset always um because I mean that I have a laugh and take it easy and do it more socially or I take it seriously I can't sort of.
Flip-flop in between both I have to sort of pick a lane and keep at it because if I'm with them seriously but losing it's like I think there's a difference in between having a laugh doing it and being engaged to disconnection so you're like I'm so Furious I'm gonna disconnect from this emotion and just my life so then I don't feel the pain and I think that's the route that I did without probably with my lack of maturity and mindset and.
Emotions that I'm trying to learn now so yeah but is it is there an aspect of identity though in the sense that somebody may or may not identify as an athlete a sports person as a hockey player so if we just Zone in on you you might identify as a hockey player and that's your primary identity in your Social Circles um in your family and whatever so when that is the case it's harder then to um be beaten in a way that you had no.
Control right because it's team sport so you technically have no control over that really because you have 10 other guys 10 other people because you play mix 10 of the people that um that you have to like instill that have to have the same mindset the same kind of like ambition to win so is it because there's an identity aspect to this which then means that it's hard to step in and out of the impact of losing when you should have won because like.
You are higher quality and actually it's just an aspect of the team that lost Focus or that you yourself lost Focus or you yourself you know didn't train in the week um as hard or you yourself didn't sleep very well last night you know hmm so what was your question from that is it because of your identity that's fine um I'm not sure but potentially because I was I was not particularly great at school so our parents my parents.
Um encouraged me to do sport so in my weakness and feeling like I was useless actually Sports made me feel like oh there's something I'm actually generally good at so then you sort of want to keep on top of that because I think being dyslexic you sort of know you're always handicapped from a Reading Writing academic point of view that you might never be able to if it's a race might never be able to catch up with people that don't have dyslexia.
Yeah um so then you're like okay then I'll just pour energy into Just Sports and just do it all the time and I think that's the thing is when you're a kid there's so much opportunity to do it loads and and have a go at it which was great but then when you get older you sort of feel like okay I've I've done everything I can around here how can I um push my ability a little bit further.
Because at the end of the day you want to compete with people that are roughly on your level a little bit higher and a little bit lower so then it feels like a good competition yeah yeah and then you want to go higher again and higher again because there's no point playing someone that's you're they're a pro and you're a 10 year old and they'll just thrash you because there's no competition in that but equally it's the other way around.
You don't want to play a 10 year old in your your best game because then again there's no competition um obviously it's a bit different if you're playing with a son or nephew and you're doing it for more a a bonding experience over like a competitive experience I think to add as well sometimes we're scared maybe I'll speak up for myself I might be scared of feeling sadness and disappointment that I tried and it wasn't good enough therefore I will always in my mind just.
Think I'm having fun I'm having fun I'm having fun so there is no disappointment right when when I lose because I would hate to feel that I've done all this work and I still lost like that I know that that will not I don't think I'm gonna like I know for a fact that I'm not gonna like that feeling and I don't want to create a situation where that's the case so I train five days a week or.
Four days a week or whatever in preparation for this game but I'm also recognizing the it's okay to feel these highs and lows so long as it's in the right frame right that I'm then not going out and you know punching through a window or whatever um so like how can I try a little bit harder and focus a little bit more be a little bit more strategic and it is okay that I still lose because it's all in the name of like Improvement.
And iterating and just getting better can I can I like be more excited about improving rather than the fear of disappointment or or kind of like sadness um again it's like the fear basically will stop the reward because what happens if I commit to Improvement and I do win more then surely I will feel better but I'm scared more so that I'll be committing and actually losing and that's what I'm worried about so can I work on like.
You know getting closer to those emotions and being okay with them being in existence and not feeling like that I need to avoid them because of a fear that I don't want to feel that way like nobody wants to feel sad right but it's stopping me from feeling from improving and committing because I'm scared of being sad when I lose yeah yeah there's an interesting one so I think it's one of those things I think sometimes I find it interesting the.
The F1 slash golf plays from a more privileged background of finances all they say is you just need to work hard and you can get here and it's like I don't always agree with that I remember listening to an audio book and it's basically saying how everyone has their sweet spot but what is it so some people might be wealth of like physical wealth some might be like wealth of knowledge or information some technical like their background might.
Affect them and it it was like basically try and find out what your sweet spot of Life Is by knowing your surroundings to then do the best you can because I think me going into the hockey world okay you don't recognize the how much money you need to put into it early dose because like my first hockey stick was my I'm pretty sure it was our Auntie's old one um that I was just using that was probably way out of date until you can.
Afford one and that's the thing is you can normally get one as a kid because everyone wants to help kids and it's easy and it's cheap because you just walk to your local Club but then as you slowly get older and realizing oh there's a cost to the the travel the kit the gear the more you play the more you rinse through stuff actually you might be working hard at your hockey but you also have to work hard at your job to make sure it's.
Paying for your hockey um so it's it's a I find that what's the word I find it quite bitter when people say it's just hard work and that is it because I know how much hard work I've put at something and it's still not quite worked out because I've had to juggle my hard work in different areas and I guess it's like yeah if I could solely focus on hockey and everything was paid for fair enough I probably would be able.
To do it because you're not focusing on XYZ of oh you have to pay for something or you have to fix your car to then get to or whatever that may be and that's what's interesting with the formula one is you see the more politics and the if they're having a bad life behind us it can affect their playing like in front of the camera um or whatever so I think I think everybody overlooks the so there's two things from what you.
Said one I've actually come to realize that mindset is even mindset as a privilege the way that you think the uniqueness of how you think is a privilege because not everybody thinks in that way right and then secondary to that a hundred percent there is a privilege in circumstances which allows you to focus on less um less things externally and more things internally as in outside of the game in the game therefore you're going to perform better because there's less.
Spinning plates and I 100 agree that like it's very challenging for somebody that has to worry about XYZ because of money versus somebody that doesn't have to think about that and therefore can spend all that same amount of effort of thinking time on perfecting their serve or perfecting their Crossing or corners or penalties or whatever it is um yeah 100 100 agree so it's more um it's more challenging you have to exhibit more grit when you come from a.
Background that's where you have to consider these aspects rather than them all being provided for you and I would 100 say circumstances have probably eliminated um much more quality and competition um then we realize in the sense of I'm sure there are plenty of messies out there and the and those better than Messi but they're not around because of their own circumstance that's not their fault right um their circumstances that they're in which means that they can't get to it.
And I always like um when there are programs to bring down the bar so it's not like a monetary entry requirement to be good or not good at something um and I think that can happen with lots of sports Formula One is is a massive like financial burden because you basically start off by go-karting and to pay for your own go-kart and do go-karting every weekend financially is just probably ridiculous um so it is very difficult um one thing I find fascinating with the.
The Formula One stuff because I know one of the guys was like I was able to make this team because I basically brought a sponsor with me um it's like I've noticed with football even at a local level if you go on their website a lot of the time each individual player is sponsored yeah but from like a hockey stance you're not really sponsored until like you've hate like Pro basically maybe semi pro you might be sponsored by.
A sort of a hockey stick firm but a lot of time it's just you get one free stick or you get 50 off or something and a stick might cost 200 quid but I always find it fascinating going I wonder if each sport sort of looked left and right to different spots to be like how do you help let's say the local hockey team is it worth getting them individual sponsors because what okay I know that people watch football.
But you will have people watching hockey as well um slash you might get more money for your value or whatever with the different types of people watching but yeah it's a very interesting topic money and sports and passion yeah it's it's the driver right um so of course generally speaking as time has gone on I'm sure there's been excuse me I'm sure there's been more Grassroots trying to like eliminate the monetary or the status entry point to certain Sports.
Um but then a lot of the time we'll think that that's um football but really there is also the Lesser known sports or the Lesser watch sports the Lesser uh publicized sports like for example hockey um but then it's kind of a tie-in and I don't really know what the answer is but why would somebody invest in a hockey player um to some extent because ultimately there is not the same pathway um that's been created so the only.
Benefit would be for that in one individual in this time period because there isn't the the competition or there isn't the um the economy for somebody to like make sense of like yeah cool I'll invest it here and I'll get it back because then my company can be advertised at the World Cup version of the like Hockey World Cup kind of thing and so it's always challenging to be like how do we create more incentives for people to part with their cash.
To invest in young old athletes to have more competitions to provide um kind of like that Kickback of some sorts because we recognize generally speaking yes there'll be a proportion of people that will do it for the feel-good factor but most people in the sustainable aspect of it is probably more so for the kickback thing so can we create an infrastructure that gives the kick back so there can be people willing to part with the money to invest in you know a local Hockey Club.
Where don't worry like don't worry guys we've all bought your hockey sticks so you don't have to worry about that like if you want to do hockey we will pay for your hockey stick and your hockey ball and your shin pads and your and your um it's gonna say outfits it's not outfits what you call them um kits yeah yeah kits and stuff but I I don't know like what's what do you feel like how do we drive more investment in.
Smaller lesser known Sports nice easy topic for me you're the spokesperson I don't have I don't have the answer all I recognize is we need some Dynamic of a kickback some sort of like benefit right and I think two two things popped to mind I don't know if this links directly or slightly indirectly and I'll be coming for you for the second point about the the talents of the the thing that you shared with me the other day.
Um but even just two days ago I had a chat with an agency based in London South Africa so they're a development agency software development and they were just basically linking up with different people in different worlds so you can pass work from one to another and create Partnerships basically and as I was sharing um sort of Journey as a company and sharing what we try and emulate of when money comes into our account we try and then look to hand it off to our extra.
University we're looking at our old schools and stuff like that uh to progress the future and the first thing that guy said was like that's really fascinating and and amazing that you're already handing back because a lot of people don't do that until they're basically Mega rich or famous so then that percentage of one percent either means a lot more because you feel like you're more impactful but also that one percent doesn't affect your life there's no element of.
Sacrifice if you're um a millionaire or whatever and you don't need all the money so you're like yeah I'll give it to my old school an old University it's like how do you do many forms of sacrifice on like a monthly or annual scale in where you're at right now to help people um and I guess is what we were talking about I'll let you divulge and throw you on the spot now about that one Talon person I think um so what Tom's referring to.
Um there's a story in the Bible about um a couple of people that get yeah Parable which is technically a story right um a story um about a master and servants and the master basically is going to go on a long trip so has a bunch of wealth that he distributes to the three servants um in hope that then they would multiply it right um and what he does is based on their abilities splits it five to one two to.
The other and one to the other one and what I would say is um then the people go away the one with five doubles it the one with two doubles it the one with one basically gets scared and buries it and the master comes back says well done the guy that multiplied it awesome here's the reward basically access to me number two well done his reward exactly same treatment and then the third one is like oh what an idiot why have you done.
That you could have given it to a bank because a bank would have even given more money on back and I think when it comes back to um talking about um based on abilities broadly speaking the Bible talks a lot about rich people and poor people and those are those are attributed to characteristics poor people trip like uh like the characteristics of a poor person is is humble and the characteristics of a rich person is pride or arrogance.
And how that those two play very differently when you realize what's been given to you so for example the first two people are more likely going to be humble because they recognize firstly it's come the resources to multiply have come from someone AKA The Master um and then they're excited to report back hey I have multiplied this stuff so they've also got a good perspective of the master right whereas the third person might be a little bit more uh prideful.
Might kind of want no public record of it because he didn't take it to the bank so did he want to switch from being a manager of the money to be an owner of the money and hope that the the boss never came back right so I think the dynamic nature of where did all this resource come from to begin with that enables you to do what you do and if you're in a humble mindset you'll recognize that giving it back or giving.
It to improve other people's situations is because you just recognize that you know how you've come about um your journey in business or whatever and really being more um being more like um like bar Hamburg and private and a bit arrogant and thinking you know better or thinking you know best and being more um tight tightly held or like um stuff isn't going to produce the the return um and therefore you you lose out in in being that way that's not the greatest.
Iterate that's not the best iteration um so I 100 think that one just recognizing the source and the reason for these things happening the reason why you have this skill is because the skill was given to you in some in some way in some regards it was developed in some way within you um not coincidentally therefore the way that you then operate is much more outward thinking to be like how can I give back rather than inward thinking of how can I benefit and I.
Think it is about how do you change someone from being prideful to being humble it's probably just recognizing the source of your abilities and where the heck where the heck is that all come from you know because um recognizing that somebody else might not have that same ability so thankful that you have that ability and um and yeah then going on from that but did that kind of like tackle what you were hoping that I was going to tackle.
Uh yeah and I guess it's just think as well to add if you've only been given a pound and someone else has given two pounds someone else's given five pound you're more likely to know be nervous losing the pound because you've got more to lose and you don't have as much flexibility with compared to a five pound of doubling it but equally if you look at it as percentages that pound is 100 of what you've been given but there's five pound that's 100.
Of what that person's given so sometimes by looking at just the what you have if it's your house or your car you're rating a car versus a car but actually if you're getting 80 out of your car and someone's getting 50 off theirs actually you're doing a good job like keep it going see if you can squeeze it a little bit more see if you can like borrow it to someone if they need it because they're struggling or see if.
There's yeah any other things that you can help people take stuff to the skip or stuff like that that's the thing it's making most of what you have in your hand and I guess gratitude is a massive helpful factor in that 100 I I think to add to that it's [Music] um it's also trying to avoid comparison because ultimately the response to the two individuals multiplying so one protecting and two multiplying is the same right so it doesn't matter.
That it was multiplied by Nth Degree um it doesn't matter um the result in a monetary thing term it matters the characteristic right it was protecting and multiplying AKA productivity it doesn't matter the value of the productivity is it matters that there was productivity and I think sometimes it's a case of how can you more so stay in your own lane and visualize your own lane as a matter of efficiency over inefficiency and productivity over um lack of or inaction or.
You know staying the same uh to be able to then generate a better output because again comparison is is absolutely a killer yeah so how can you avoid comparison and just focus on hey look in this story here it didn't matter the amount that they had multiplied it just mattered that they had multiplied right had more than they were given it like used it that's because they used it so are you using it really yeah probably not that loss Welsh but.
We've already no what 30 minutes yeah 41 minutes well I think the kind of conclusion really is like going back to mindset and stuff and and thank you story to conclude on not funny-ish social media that I was watching uh this morning and it was a guy basically saying I look at everyone that is oh it was like I look at everyone and anyone that doesn't own a Lamborghini I don't understand why because I find it so easy that you can get a Lamborghini.
And then the following clip was is another rich white guy with a podcast I don't think it stuck yeah it's just funny how some people just don't realize the difficulties of what you might be dealing with but also you have other aspirations in life so don't compare be yourself mindset mindset is a privilege yeah let alone situational circumstantial privilege you know resource privilege as well um and I think despite despite those things can you get into a headspace where.
You're able to be you know thankful and humble because you recognize well if you are stuck in a comparison thing be thankful for what you do have because you do have stuff like it's it's um it's not that you were given nothing um you you are talented you are you do have gifts and if you don't know what they are the people that are close to you to describe like three uh things about you that they like or whatever and.
They'll tend to turn up like people forget that being able to encourage somebody is a gift right that like not everybody can do that well and effective so sometimes it can be just even character traits are a gift you know so yeah so yeah mindset do individual sports if you don't do individual sports get into individual sports because that was a fine mindset and then apply that to life would be very interesting but if you can't afford stuff then start at the.
Like the base layer of like five side football or something that doesn't require like a racket or a hockey stick or something like that as well or borrow you know Facebook Marketplace I'm sure you go to find a hockey stick or a golf club or something something right exactly or trade like you used to trade cards yeah I am yeah 100 on Facebook Marketplace hey I can't afford a golf club but I would love to start playing golf.
Um anybody got a golf club that I can borrow like just just get out there all in the name of trying to find the best iteration of yourself and on that note if you stick around we're going to speak about the baftas because I think I should say the bafta story in Welsh we want to figure out yeah I really want to figure out how to put English subtitles on this next bit because I 100 recognize that people will drop off now.
Which I I know that we're doing it selfishly to kind of like for our own personal kind of like just ticking over because otherwise we'll lose it um but we want to carry you into if like through the Journey into the next bit so at some point we'll have to figure out a way of subtitling that part or cutting it out and having it as a separate video in it it's subtitled on uh all the audio the platforms.
Yeah we just subtitling it just elsewhere you're just not seeing it right now that would be like a really interesting thing if if YouTube could automatically detect that we'd switch language and therefore keep English subtitles even though we've changed languages in in what we're actually saying and doing so all right anyways now with foreign [Laughter] [Music] um and bafta AK um event oven um celebrate throw in throw in if you know the welshwood to celebrate um you celebrate your publicity where the.
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