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– So why do we actually want self confidence? Why is confidence important? Well firstly if you feel confident, you are generally happier. Would you guys agree with that? Would you also agree that if if you’re happy you’re probably more likely to perform better. It’s something that I try and push with my athletes competing at a top level. That a happy athlete, all else being equal, a happy athlete is a positive athlete is a successful athlete. You will perform better if you are happier. If you’re more confident. You will be happier. It improves your concentration. If you’re confident then you are focused on the mind at hand. You can, again, have that focus that attentional narrowing. It’ll make your goals bigger. Now if you set bigger goals, then you’re more challenged to work towards them. If you’re more challenged to work towards them, then you’re going to achieve bigger things. Okay. What’s your max snatch? 47 and a half. What do you reckon, would be a goal? So, what’s your goal?
– [Woman] 70.
– 70, okay. Good magnitude there. Who was thinking she was going to say 50? A few people, yeah? That’s a little goal. Could Danny not try in her snatch in the next six months and then hit 50? Yeah, she doesn’t really have to work on it. We’re going to talk about this more when we talk about goals in a moment. But… If you’re confident. If you’re self confidence is improved, you set more aggressive reach goals, therefore you have to work harder to get them. Therefore you’d end up improving by more than two and a half kilos. Yup, it all makes sense. It’s all… It’s all logical. It increases your effort levels. If you’re confident you’ll actually try harder. So, think of a movement that you’re really good at, like, it’s your jam. Yup, you’re really good at this, your workout comes out with this and you’re like yeah I got this. You try harder on that. Think of something that you’re really bad at. I am not a squatter. Do you try as hard when that thing comes up? Or do you sort of drop your effort levels because I’m not as good at this. And you can’t… You can’t handle the pain as well. Do you feel like there is almost a large pain threshold in the stuff that you’re not good at? Yeah? Imagine if you thought you were better at everything. You would put more effort in. What happens when you put more effort into your squats? You get better at squats. Yeah, our confidence is going to reflect our performance and our outcome. It changes your strategies. If you go into something with a lack of confidence, you go in with a very defensive mindset. Yeah? I need to try and not be bait. I don’t want anyone to bait me. As opposed to going with a positive mindset, I’m going to win. You’re sort of after the same outcome, but it’s a very different way of approaching it. Being more offensive, attacking, rather than defensive in your mindset. And that comes from you being more confident. If you believe you can do well, there’s more chance that you are going to do well. And then your ability to rebound from adversity. Like I said, there will be troughs, in anything. Yeah, it’s a self awareness play. If you know that those troughs are going to be there, then you expect them and you go, yup hey trough my old friend we meet again. I’ll see you in another cycle. Yeah, because I’ll be back. If you can accept that and go, yup I have the confidence though, the self awareness, that I’m going to be able to then rebound from adversity.
