I was fortunate to play two years of college baseball at Pepperdine University and play for someone who had a big influence on me, Andy Lopez. I’ll meet you all at the place past confidence where you perform without resistance. Without resistance, the performance just flows as it should.ĭon’t be afraid of any part of the process. A performer needs confidence to overcome resistance. There is a space beyond that which is difficult to describe except maybe to say it’s performance without resistance. There’s a quote in the movie The Matrix – “Are you saying I can dodge bullets?”, “I’m saying when you’re ready, you won’t have to”Ĭonfidence may be back in the process where a performer is still finding a way to overcome the obstacles to the best performance when it is most needed. I’ve had games where I knew exactly where the ball was going when I pitched it and where it would be hit before it happened. You’re awareness expands, you see everything, it flows. It’s where the performance flows, it comes through you, it’s goes beyond confidence – it’s so good, you know what will happen before it happens. Then, you reach a place where the performance becomes art, the zone, magic, or whatever name you give it. Both experiences become yours, both are necessary, and contribute to confidence as you can draw strength from success and draw strength from the fact that you can get back to form from any bad game. In baseball, have great games and get the worst beatings you can imagine. The next part of the process is to experience success and failure. In baseball, that’s where guys get superstitious, listen to music to get up or to come down, do whatever is needed to get ready for a game. Whether it’s fear, nerves, butterflies, or whatever, you need to find a way to the bottom line – give your best performance when you need it the most. Once you take that natural talent into performance or competition with others at the same or higher talent level, you need two things – to train and perfect that skill, and find a way to deal with your reaction to increasing pressure to perform. It begins with a natural skill or talent – my parents told me stories that I barely remember that I could throw a ball to a spot at a young age so I had a skill to pitch a baseball. Not everyone goes through the whole process, but here’s where I’ve gone so far. There is a process that one goes through. What makes us confident or not? What do we need to be in place to be confident?Īnswer by Pat Ahearne on The Way of Baseball: I am interested in the area of confidence in artistic performers and non performers. Recently, there was a question about confidence posed to the audience on the Linked In network by Avon Harpley, a training and coaching Professional:Īvon Harpley: I am looking at possible areas of research for my dissertation next year.
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