Heather Berlin

That's the part of the brain that's.

That's the part right here?

Yeah, right in front above the eyes.

And sometimes control like that is really good.

Like we need that, right, to override.

But other times, like with Alex, once he's trained so well and his kind of body and brain know what to do, when you start putting in that top down, you start becoming too consciously aware and thinking too much, it messes you up.

Because the training, and then you actually, once you've trained like to perform at your best, you actually have to stop trying so hard.

You have to let go.

Mm-hmm.

It's not even just athletes, musicians.

Musicians.

Surgeons.

Right.

They've trained to the level that they don't have to think about it.

And in fact, if they start to think about it, because consciousness is very good at certain things, but has a limited capacity.

Right.

The unconscious, it's so large, if you start to consciously think about it, it kind of messes up the flow of things.

If you had to think about how am I walking and balancing at the same time and all that, it wouldn't work as well.

Or when you're a professional athlete, what angle am I going to hit that ball?

It will mess you up.