- It's important to make a distinction
between the training and trusting mindset
as we've been talking about.
And what tends to happen is we spend so much
of our time practicing.
What we call training,
preparing to be good at our task
at whatever skill we've decided
we wanna make a career out of
what we have to.
If you wanna be a world-class musician,
you need to spend hours upon hours, day after day
for an incredible number of years
to get to that point.
So the amount of commitment, the amount of work ethic
the amount of preparation
and rehearsal that goes into that is extraordinary.
Well, unfortunately what comes with all that
preparation and rehearsal is spending a lot of time
in that training mindset.
Which is thinking critically and judgmentally
which is really in the process of assessing,
okay, what do I need to improve?
Because we spend so many hours, it becomes a habit.
Habits like biting your fingernails,
or pulling on your hair
or smacking your gum.
There are lots of silly little habits we have day to day.
But if you think about them, what are they?
All they are something that you've done a whole lot,
that you start to do without thinking.
Well, the training mindset
we can have developed into a habit.
We spend so much time in this rehearsal.
In this effort to be good,
that we've taught ourselves the training mindset.
We've taught ourselves to think critically and judgmentally.
Well, if we look
at the way human system responds to pressure,
responds to competitive situations,
responds to a situation
which there's going to be social evaluation or approval.
In any one of those arenas,
the human will fall back on habits.
Physiologically and psychologically
whatever our strongest habits are, they'll come out.
So the more pressure there are,
the more your most deep rooted habits come to the surface.
Well, if one of your habits
is thinking in the training mindset,
what you'll find is you get into performance situations
and auditions and giving concerts and so forth
and that mindset will come out.
Well, the mindset of a performer is the trusting mindset.
It's free of evaluation.
It's very loose and instinctive.
If we spent so much time
working on the training mindset
and then we wanna have the trusting mindset
come out under pressure, there's a disconnect.
We need to make the trusting mindset a habit
because we want the habit of trusting
to come out under pressure.
And if you look
at who we call pressure players in athletics,
clutch performers.
You look at musicians and say, you know
they may not necessarily have the best work ethic
but when they get on stage, they're brilliant.
All right, those real instinctive people
we often have a lot of jealousy and envy envy toward.
But what they've done,
is they've developed a trusting mindset
and they've worked on it so much
that it's their dominant habit.
Then you put them in a pressure situation,
outcomes the dominant habit,
and there they are trusting, freeing it up,
just letting it go, going with the music
going with the flow.
Feeling the energy from the audience
and sharing that energy back.
That sort of mindset will happen under pressure
but only if we've practiced it.
So we need to really break down our rehearsals.
And if you're thinking about a week
of time and you block out and you're gonna spend X number
of hours per day over a week or over a month
you need to really think,
well how much of that time am I spending
in the training mindset versus how much of that time
am I spending in the trusting mindset
and allow yourself to practice the trusting mindset enough
so it starts to become a habit.