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Plain English with Derek Thompson cover image

Why the Voice Inside Your Head Can Sound Like a Jerk

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

How to Improve Your Pitching Skills in Little League

When you're pitching, or performing any complicated sports behavior, you are doing something very complex without thinking. We link together lots of different movements into one seamless hole. What chatter does, and which is what i would argue and kill experienced on the mound that day, is it zooms us in on the thing we're worried about. So if i'm worried about my pitch, i i tunnel vision. That's all i caun think about is, am i holding the ball tight enough? Am i getting enough momentum as i move back and forth? And once you start zooming in on all the individual components of a complex behavior, the whole thing unravels.

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