Tim Newman

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5,843 appearances 23 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 Aug

Tim Newman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Another group did nothing at all.

They performed identically.

All that effort to relax, and it bought them nothing.

She ran the same test across karaoke, public speaking, and timed math problems.

Same result every time.

I used to give my students the exact advice I'm telling you to throw out.

Take a breath, settle down, you've got this.

And I watched it fail over and over in front of a lecture hall full of 19-year-olds who were shaking just as hard after my pep talk as before it.

Because I was fighting biology with a platitude.

And biology wins that fight every single time.

So if calming down is a dead end, the real question is what elite performers do instead.

Athletes don't eliminate adrenaline.

They build a system to point it somewhere.

Michael Phelps ran a detailed mental film before every race.

Every stroke, every turn.

Every possible way a competitor could try to rattle him.

He rehearsed it so many times in his head that the actual race felt like a rerun and not a debut.

His longtime coach Bob Bowman built that habit on purpose.

Every night he had Phelps run the race in his mind before sleep, start to finish, including the moments where something went wrong.

Goggles filling with water, a bad start, arrival surging late.

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