Feedback loop mind-thought-physiology

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It's interesting how you can sit and debate a topic like weather and sport and food, but you don't pause to apply those same principles to debate yourself. So that's what it means to talk to yourself instead of listen to yourself. You mention a sort of your emotions dictating your body and your body dictating your behaviour. And all that seems to happen at this unconscious level. This reinforcing loop, is called a thought performance interaction. It's one of the fundamental things that we discuss when you're working with an athlete oryou're working with a team just to understand how this chain works.

Justin Su'a calls on more than a decade of working with the world’s top athletes to discuss how to improve your mental performance. Su’a explores the strategies you need to be your best mentally with lessons that resonate well beyond the world of sports — including how to connect and build trust, the relationship between consistency and intensity, the fragility of confidence, the difference between success and talent, how to raise the bar of your own performance, and so much more.

Su'a has spent the past three years as the Head of Mental Performance for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball, where he works with players to optimize their mental performance and perform under enormous pressure. He has also worked for the Boston Red Sox as well as the NFL’s Cleveland Browns, and as the Head of Mental Conditioning Department for the IMG Academy, which develops star athletes of the future. He’s also written two books on the subject of developing mental toughness in adolescents.

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