Transcribed from video:
– [Dan] Talking about self talk, this I think is a really really important one and in terms of the concentration, this is where we’re going to spend most of our time. Who’s aware of their self talk? Who’s aware of what they say to themselves? Who would talk to someone else the same way that you talk to yourself? Probably get slapped, yeah? Yeah, yeah, so your self talk, your inner dialogue, I’m glad that you’re all aware of it ’cause we need to start to make some changes to that. Who thinks they need to change their self talk? Yep, need to make some changes to your inner dialogue. So what does it do? Well if it’s good it improves your self esteem, your motivation, it allows you to be more focused in the present on your performance, and again it makes you happy. If your self talk is positive, you become positive. If you’re positive, you’re happy, and a happy athlete is a successful athlete. If your self talk is negative, it’s critical, it’s demeaning, ah you idiot why did you do that, that was stupid, that was a terrible bar muscle up, stop winging your elbow, et cetera. Okay, noddings of heads, and it creates negative emotions, and if you could choose between a positive emotion and a negative one, then it’s academic really. So how does this work? Well, there’s a process, something happens there’s an event that happens, something you do, something that happens to you. And then as a result of that, we make a judgement . I rounded my back on a deadlift, don’t round your back ya idiot. So we respond to that and then this leads us down this certain emotionally path, ah, I’m a failure, I’m not good at this and our emotions start to go down into one of those troughs. That’s the process of self talk.
