Dr. Michael Gervais

It's not like that.

It's not like if you imagine the red Corvette showing up in your driveway that it's just going to show up one day.

It's not like that.

But when you see yourself moving gracefully,

When you hear yourself in your own imagination, like adjusting and showing up in tense moments, you are programming yourself for future states.

And so that programming is not a secret.

And it is something that requires skill to do.

And in elite sporting environments, we have coaches for that.

And the rest of us are kind of left to our own devices to say, well, how do I do it?

Just like you're asking, well, how do I do it?

I'll get off this narrative now, but it's just one more thing to say.

Close your eyes.

Imagine the colors, the scenario, the environment, the setting, bring all of your senses to it.

And that takes time to get them right.

And then play the movie however you want.

You can fast forward it, rewind it, see it from different perspectives, change it altogether.

If you don't like it, you know, move on.

And if you did that eight minutes a day, that's pretty cool.

So let's do the public presenting thing for a minute.

It's one of the great fears for Westerners.