African-American, Articulate, English voiceover.
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North American (General) US African AmericanTranscript
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Before you begin, this book has the power to transform your life only. You know why these 10 neurological ideas suggested by research have found their way to you. You are about to discover simple changes that will have a profound effect on your well-being relationships and career. Now is the time to do even a few things to become a better version of yourself, more kind and more powerful. It is possible to use these 10 things to create energy that is contagious and brings innovation, health and happiness that every brain deserves begin. Now setting the stage for your journey by making sure you intentionally remove possible distractions and interruptions, avoid any clutter from your view and control. Wondering thoughts, maintain a calm center and focus on your breathing. If you have something on your mind or recurring thoughts, notice it, then reset your attention by returning to a calm state of being inhale, then exhale thoughts and cleanse your mind with deliberate attention to the breath in and out. Allow yourself to think of the life you've always imagined and wanted. You will find your way by reading the title of every chapter and notice which ones spark your interest. Each chapter represents thousands of hours researching, training and applying brain research over my career and I have no doubt made errors and mistakes that will embarrass me. Please forgive those imperfections. I know this research and these strategies represent game changing behaviors and protocol. The ideas in this book are based on neuroscientific and microbiological research and have the power to heal and improve every area of your life. By now, you have discovered that some things come easy, most take effort and sometimes being the best does not guarantee a win. The best of the best spends years training, practicing precise and technical execution, working constantly and anticipating the performance or the game to do it right at showtime. But the truth is the medal does not go to the best prepared person on game day. The win goes to the one with the best mental game. I learned this in a dark moment with my teammates in the audience, my tennis partner and I were in a tiebreaker against the champion team, both arrogant and pompous. And when I had the easy put away at game point, I hit out by two ft. I fell to my knees and vowed never again. Success or failure is not the outcome of a lucky gamble. The thrill of victory or agony of defeat is far from luck. Winners are not gambling. Their performance comes from the winners neural pathways not doing tailspins in the clutch. It is this pathway that gets tested by NFL coaches, hoping the opponent's kicker has a quirky mental game that will interfere at the time of a game winning field goal. Even great athletes can trip up under pressure. But neuroscientific evidence reveals what triggers this and thankfully how to protect ourselves against it. You will not believe what conquering choke offers in the non sport world. You see preparation for the mind game galvanizes neural pathways and establishes the neural functions underlying intelligence, innovation and thought which we use to solve problems. We desperately need fixed for an athlete training. The inner game is training to be a champion, but that peak neural ability also seems to offer the holy grail to becoming the perfect version of yourself. Few of us have the high stakes performance of a professional kicker, goalie or golfer and lifelong training rarely comes down to one single shot, but everyone has a moment when they have to say or do things right. The reason about two minutes of time out tests the kicker's ability is that all that time to think can allow words of personal concern into the brain and then a play, the athlete could make blindfolded becomes a 50 50 gamble thinking, reroutes neural communication from an automatic space into our conscious processing. And when that happens, getting it through the uprights is no longer guaranteed. Just the thought. What if I fail, can tank your performance? Thinking if I miss my teammates will lose or the fans will hate me can result in choking if a personal concern sinks in the Amygdala responds and interrupts attention to the task. If your attention has ever wandered off your task to thinking of a personal concern, you have only a 50% chance of success since no one can avoid a high stakes moment at some point in life. You must train your mental game if people perform at their best doors open, if they perform badly. Well, there may not be a second chance Seon bio choke. It does not matter that you are not an NFL kicker or a soccer superstar. The ability to perform and concentrate is crucial. When life brings the moment, you will need to stay as cool as a cucumber. So you don't blow an interview. Sound like a fool to your boss or bomb a presentation at work or test. Training for mental toughness allows you to get it right. An untrained inner mind game ahead of glass will leave you vulnerable. But training to do even a couple things can protect your success. If you are not naturally good under pressure, it might have cost you in ways you didn't notice, but it is not too late to realize your dreams. And one side effect of this training is enhanced cognition and more fluid intelligence. If you can be iced, you are holding out on your intelligence and innovation and can even sap your courage it seems harmless. But the thought, what if I fail interrupts your working memory and significantly increases your chances of failure under pressure. Working memory supports inner speech and thinking during complex cognitive task. Any interruption of attention here prevents high level cognitive processing as effectively as a brick wall interrupting attention to a task, compromises your intelligence, your memory and even your ability to drive your car. Research on underperformance in some groups in society offers explanations of the maddening choke phenomenon. Stereotype bias exposes the way our own thought processes, worrying about others beliefs interfere with our realization of our potential. So that in many cases, high performers do the worst people of groups who are stereotyped by race, sex or physical attributes do not perform at their best. When they are prompted to consider those stereotypes as a result. We have conclusive and detailed evidence of why highly capable individuals fail. Cognitive tests behave in out of character ways and inadvertently reinforce society's beliefs. But we also have the antidote. One extremely effective practice is to think of something you are the best at the science behind neural connectivity explains the mystery of the choke and mercifully what stops it that attention to the belief and the fear of reaffirming it. Use the same area of the prefrontal cortex needed for performance. The neurons switch to consciously processing the personal concern that attention to the belief and the fear of reaffirming it. Use the same area of the prefrontal cortex needed for performance. The neurons switch to consciously processing the personal concern for Black Americans thoughts about stereotypes trigger underperformance on math exams and verbal reasoning tests and even cause subjects in one experiment to engage in behaviors considered suspicious. During a legal interview for women, the thoughts of sex bias cause underperformance on math exams which influences them to avoid studying in technical fields and compromises their fluid intelligence in public settings. The thought of female stereotypes interrupts their working memory thoughts of letting others down the male or female sex, a social group of not measuring up or that the failure will reaffirm. A bias are devastating. Anyone in the habit of allowing the wrong thought in during a test or performance is not only potentially compromising their own dreams but limiting society's potential for innovation, problem solving and equity underperforming when it matters may stop the best and brightest minds from getting into or keeping powerful positions, costing society brilliant cognitive abilities training against a neural downshift can even protect against deliberate attempts to dominate. Take the legal system, for example, while researchers work hard to design experiments to study behaviors and beliefs. A US courtroom is already a Petri dish. Female lawyers navigate the beliefs of judges, juries opposing counsels and clients law professor Laura Bazelon wrote a chilling story in the Atlantic of Antics meant to remind the judge that women are emotional. More than 20 opposing male attorneys admitted to filing a no crime motion before a trial began to increase their opponents. Chances of choking this motion brings a contested issue to the judge for a decision presumably to gain an edge before the trial changes to society's beliefs may take decades. But training ahead can counter tactics that may interrupt a person's working memory. The stakes are high in the courtroom because rulings shape democracy law by precedent changes our society and a lawyer's ability to access complex information and think quickly may mean life or death for her client thinking instead of a personal trait that you value, resets your working memory immediately, the imperative to excel under stressful courtroom conditions without abandoning the traits that judges and juries positively associate with being female. Deborah Rhode Stanford, professor and jurist. It is improbable. You will work to protect your working memory if you do not know an interruption interferes with intelligence, memory, mental rotation, physical ability and even driving decades of compelling evidence shows how beliefs trigger underperformance and how to protect against it. The interruption or break in thoughts affects everyone, not only people of stereotype social groups, allowing thoughts to hijack your attention, compromise anyone with a brain starting now, you should train yourself your focus and attention to use positive words in your self talk and to use movements which have been shown to lower stress and improve performance. Strategic training is non-negotiable for curriculums in school in the workplace and at home, strategic training is non-negotiable for curriculums in school, in the workplace and at home, there is no need to think. You are too overwhelmed to do something. You can only do one thing. Download your concerns and fears about the task by writing them down. That is a fast and easy way to prevent a thought that would interrupt you. At Showtime, it is the most effective way to block a worry and get into the state of effortless excellence athletes call the zone.