Jim Murphy

I said...

If you have two athletes or performers that are the same talent, I'll take the fully present person over the fully confident one every single time.

Because when you're confident, you can get careless.

And just look at how many times someone that's super confident goes into a performance and they don't perform great.

It's pretty common.

But it's way less common if you're fully present.

And so this major league all-star told me, he said, I've experienced the same thing.

And when I'm pitching and I'm in the bullpen getting warmed up, and if I'm not dialed in, then my confidence isn't super high.

But so then I have this conversation with myself.

I say, look, I don't care what your outcome is.

You can walk 10 guys.

It doesn't matter.

But you are going to be present out there.

And he said, on those days, a lot of times I performed better than I did when I was fully confident.

It's a great question because a lot of people, they take it, they don't go far enough.

They're just like, oh, just don't think about anything but what you can see or be where your feet are.

And that's such a limiting view for me.

It's super important if you're a coach to explain what this is, what does it mean?

And so what we're going for is this sense of freedom, this sense that anything is possible, this heightened awareness.

And to get that freedom, what I call this flow of resonance, where you're in sync with, you just feel really connected, grounded, centered.