What Is the Voice in Your Head Costing You? | The Inner Game Podcast
Oct 1, 2026 · 1 min · 1 segments
You've already done the work. This show is about being able to reach it when it counts. 50 years ago, Tim Gallwey wrote down a formula that explains almost every time you've come up short under…
[upbeat music] 50 years ago, an unknown tennis coach wrote down a formula that explains almost every time you've come up short under pressure.
[tennis racket hitting ball] [screaming] Performance equals potential minus interference.
Your potential is rarely the problem.
You've made that shot 100 times in practice, probably 1,000 times.
The interference is the problem, the voice that judges, that instructs, that tightens you up at exactly the wrong moment.
Self Two already knows how to do it.
Self One doesn't trust Self Two, so it takes over.
Everything you've probably ever been taught about getting better is aimed at raising your potential.
Almost none of it is aimed at that interference.
There's a lot of mental performance content out there, you know that probably more than anyone, and almost none of it tells you how to actually apply it.
Most of it is about stepping back from the pressure.
This is about stepping into it.
Every person in these chairs has been beaten or almost beaten by their own interference.
We go back to the moment it happened and we get the actual words that were in their head to overcome it.
Self Two already knows what to do.
This is about being able to reach it when it counts.
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music] 50 years ago, an unknown tennis coach wrote down a formula that explains almost every time you've come up short under pressure.
[tennis racket hitting ball] [screaming] Performance equals potential minus interference.
Your potential is rarely the problem.
You've made that shot 100 times in practice, probably 1,000 times.
The interference is the problem, the voice that judges, that instructs, that tightens you up at exactly the wrong moment.
Self Two already knows how to do it.
Self One doesn't trust Self Two, so it takes over.
Everything you've probably ever been taught about getting better is aimed at raising your potential.
Almost none of it is aimed at that interference.
There's a lot of mental performance content out there, you know that probably more than anyone, and almost none of it tells you how to actually apply it.
Most of it is about stepping back from the pressure.
This is about stepping into it.
Every person in these chairs has been beaten or almost beaten by their own interference.
We go back to the moment it happened and we get the actual words that were in their head to overcome it.
Self Two already knows what to do.
This is about being able to reach it when it counts.
[upbeat music]