Stop Overthinking. Take Action and Let it Fly with John Mollura

So whether you're on a golf course or speaking in front of a giant crowd or doing something, we also need to be paying attention to what's going on with our bodies, because we're a system.

But that's the thing, too.

Now you're scratching an itch for me, where I always say a joke.

Maybe it's in jest, but it's quite serious.

I'm like, golf at any level is like 10% pure pleasure and 90% pure panic.

And I shouldn't use panic because panic has got negative connotations.

But sadly, I see that happening with a lot of golfers.

And then with the really good ones, the ones who can manage the mayhem.

There's never really panic.

It might happen, but it doesn't last very long.

It's not debilitating.

It's like a bump in the road.

And so I want to mind this too, because I can only imagine some person sitting in a rocket about to get launched into space.

The heart rate must be off the charts, yet somehow these people are still staying cool enough to fulfill the requirements of the mission.

Yeah, and that goes a lot back to doubt.

Some people are just wired for that, right? Their life experiences have conditioned them for that.

But so much of it, like when I've read biographies of fighter pilots or even talking to pilots and people like this very high stakes thing, like they've trained so much that their bodies are responding just very quickly.

And you said something very key where...

It's not a matter of making sure things go perfectly, it's managing the mayhem.

When things do go wrong, it's a matter of not going completely off the rails and especially not having our reaction be in proportionate to what really happened.

I think we've all been there when our reaction has been orders of magnitude higher than the actual situation for what's going on.

That is, therein lies the key.

I want to share one more anecdote, but I want to mine that observation of yours.

Because we've all made too much of it in our head, I feel like, golfers and competitors and stuff.

Because there's always a goal and all of these extraneous things that are wrapped up into it.

So whether you're on a golf course or speaking in front of a giant crowd or doing something, we also need to be paying attention to what's going on with our bodies, because we're a system.

But that's the thing, too.

Now you're scratching an itch for me, where I always say a joke.

Maybe it's in jest, but it's quite serious.

I'm like, golf at any level is like 10% pure pleasure and 90% pure panic.

And I shouldn't use panic because panic has got negative connotations.

But sadly, I see that happening with a lot of golfers.

And then with the really good ones, the ones who can manage the mayhem.

There's never really panic.

It might happen, but it doesn't last very long.

It's not debilitating.

It's like a bump in the road.

And so I want to mind this too, because I can only imagine some person sitting in a rocket about to get launched into space.

The heart rate must be off the charts, yet somehow these people are still staying cool enough to fulfill the requirements of the mission.

Yeah, and that goes a lot back to doubt.

Some people are just wired for that, right? Their life experiences have conditioned them for that.

But so much of it, like when I've read biographies of fighter pilots or even talking to pilots and people like this very high stakes thing, like they've trained so much that their bodies are responding just very quickly.

And you said something very key where...

It's not a matter of making sure things go perfectly, it's managing the mayhem.

When things do go wrong, it's a matter of not going completely off the rails and especially not having our reaction be in proportionate to what really happened.

I think we've all been there when our reaction has been orders of magnitude higher than the actual situation for what's going on.

That is, therein lies the key.

I want to share one more anecdote, but I want to mine that observation of yours.

Because we've all made too much of it in our head, I feel like, golfers and competitors and stuff.

Because there's always a goal and all of these extraneous things that are wrapped up into it.