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E50 - Neil Fachie: How to avoid getting stuck; the power of pivoting

The High Performance Podcast

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How to Overcome Negative Emotions

I think by acknowledging those fears and working out how do we overcome them, that improves our resilience to then be able to confront them. I don't think most sports people are these incredibly resilient, thick skinned, tough people by any means. Most of them have this sort of system in place to deal with those negative emotions. And I have them all the time. So my race, there's a clock by the side of the track that counts you into your race effort counting down from 15 seconds or something like that. You can almost disregard 90% of those thoughts straight away. It's because of the situation I'm in. The other is I guess I just learned by doing, but

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