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Week 3 Monday, January 20, 2025 2:31 PM What is performing your best? (for sustained performance and su to have a strong mind and persevere through challenge Mental fortitude: having the in...

Week 3 Monday, January 20, 2025 2:31 PM What is performing your best? (for sustained performance and su to have a strong mind and persevere through challenge Mental fortitude: having the inner strength to keep going even when you Challenge mindset Personal qualities Facilitative - Mental skills environment - commitment - Social - cultural - Political - economic Mental fortitude - how we can develop it To have strong mind and persevere through challenges ○ involves having the inner strength to keep going, even when you don’t feel like it How to develop perseverance and inner strength ○ Develops through lived experiences, stepping outside your comfort zone, understa to what your doing Examples of performing your best Public speaking Achieving an important goal Behavioural change/self-improvement Accomplishing something independently Performing something challenging/overcoming a challenge A win/participation at an elite level Surviving and thriving in kin Winning mindset Dave collins Part of a winning mindset is about the plans you make, the confidence is in the belief you visualizations and your perspective, and the other part is in finding ways to get things don ○ Traits, where you come from (background), and how you need to modify basically uccess) es. Involves don’t feel like it anding the "why" u have, ne  Surviving and thriving in kin Winning mindset Dave collins Part of a winning mindset is about the plans you make, the confidence is in the belief you visualizations and your perspective, and the other part is in finding ways to get things don ○ Traits, where you come from (background), and how you need to modify basically ○ Talk about strength while minimizing weaknesses basically 3 kinds of winning mindsets ○ Training - the work you put in to develop ○ Competition - have the right kind of attitude towards competitiveness and delivery ○ When the shit hits the fan - to keep going when things are challenging, to do hard t persevere; successful performers are ones that continue when things are hard ○ ? "Getting there" - plans you make, finding ways to get things done, willingness to d In general, So much of any kind of performance is about problem solving - key part in dev maintaining winning mindset Deena Kastor and the challenge mindset ○ Mindful movement teaching you to engage in the moment and exist In the present a challenge environment ○ Rather than resisting discomfort, she learned to embrace all of what running does/ exists with the suffering The lesson of performance is to prepare well, and then have full faith in your training and in the performance Confidence The confidence 'drug' - suggests increasing confidence will improve performance ○ Its labelled as the 'it' factor that can determine successful vs unsuccessful performa Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is - Arnold palmer ○ The "want" feeds the commitment and perseverance ○ "concentration comes out of a combo of confidence and hunger (Arnold Palmer) So how do we get more… that is sustainable ○ Lived experiences in situations you are not comfortable in and consistent deliberat ○ Fake it till you make it § Because when you do something over and over you get more comfortable w competence ○ Surround yourself with people that support you ○ Set goals - small and larger ones Where does confidence come from and how does it impact performance Experiences (developing and improving skills) ○ Also links to motivation and SE Feedback ○ Also part of deliberate practice ○ Getting the right kind of feedback at the right time Support ○ Motivation and SE  u have, ne y of performance things and do things veloping and t - sets up well for /gives - the good d show the proof ances te practice with it and build  ○ Also links to motivation and SE Feedback ○ Also part of deliberate practice ○ Getting the right kind of feedback at the right time Support ○ Motivation and SE Success/ demonstrate skill/ability/knowledge Physical and mental prep ○ If you know you are heading into a performance and know you have prepared, you confident Physical self-presentation Coach/instructor/boss leadership ○ Trusting the leaders decision and believing in their abilities Situational favourableness ○ Seeing things go your way (eg getting good calls from refs) Environmental comfort ○ Feeling physical and mentally comfortable in the environment you are performing How do we build confidence Focus on the small 'wins' Act confidently Think confidently (internal dialogue matters) Use imagery Use goal setting/mapping - plan to get there Optimize physical conditioning and training Preparing for multiple avenues of performance Cultivate social climate conductive to performance enhancement Why does confidence matter Contributes to positive affect/emotions ○ When you are confident you feel more relaxed, calm under pressure, increases cha positively interpret anxiety = greater belief in performance Facilitates focused attention ○ Frees up mental space when your confidence = able to focus on performance Affects goals and planning ○ Confident people tend to set more challenging goals, and have higher SE, have a gr to set greater goals Increases effort ○ High confidence improves willingness to persevere Impacts game strategies ○ More confident = play to win instead of afraid to lose - willing to take risks to play f performance Impacts psychological momentum ○ Bi-directional concept affecting either probability or winning or losing as a function ○ Hypothesized PM affects performance through cognitive (increased attention, conf (changes in perception of anxiety), physiological (increased arousal) u will feel more in ance that you will reater willingness for good n of the outcome fidence), affective  ○ More confident = play to win instead of afraid to lose - willing to take risks to play f performance Impacts psychological momentum ○ Bi-directional concept affecting either probability or winning or losing as a function ○ Hypothesized PM affects performance through cognitive (increased attention, conf (changes in perception of anxiety), physiological (increased arousal) Affects overall performance ○ Most important relationship ○ Finding happy medium ○ Organizational culture, personality, demographics, affect, cognitions Quiz Out of 25 5 Mc and 3 short answer All info until today plus 2 readings for good n of the outcome fidence), affective