Dr. Michael Gervais

Then 15% of the time, this is going to sound contraindicated.

i would suggest you see yourself walking on stage being really anxious and nervous like maybe nauseous maybe a poor night's sleep 50 of the time being in a compromised situation so that you get familiar with some conditions that could show up and then seeing yourself work with those so on the finding mastery podcast we had bob bowman on which was michael feld's coach

And he recounts the story of Michael Phelps and how he does imagery.

Michael Phelps, the greatest of all time swimming, just the ground.

And he put himself in that 15% category and he saw himself with his goggles flipping up at the Olympic trials and water filling up his eyes.

as he was making the last handful of strokes towards the end there.

And he was using his imagination to see how he would adjust to that because goggles flipping up and water in your eyes is really distracting, but it happens.

So he says, I want to know how to respond.

I want to be familiar with that.

So he would play that movie

Handfuls of times, just so he would be familiar with it.

And just because you see it doesn't mean it happens.

It's not how this works, but it does ready yourself.

It does prepare yourself.

And it did happen for him at the Olympic Games.

And as the story goes, he stayed on time, on pace, unfettered, unbothered by his goggles flipping up, water gushing into his eyes, and he out touches his competitor by fractions of a second and is on the podium as a gold medalist.

So that 85-15 is kind of a mix that I think is pretty sophisticated.

And the other thing is, it's a nice little splash at the end to maybe see yourself standing on the stage.

And I mean this, just a little splash, right?

Seeing yourself standing at the end on the stage and seeing the audience roar.