Life Quote by Fitzgerald Matt

“Physical fitness determines where the wall that represents your physical limit is placed. Mental fitness determines how close you are able to get to…

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“More often, they insist that their advantage lies not in having more to give but rather in being able to give more of what…

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“may have resulted from abnormal wiring in the serotonergic system of his brain. Other”

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“Well-trained athletes have an easier time achieving flow because they are less physically self-conscious.”

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“Self-belief cannot be manufactured through obsessive yearning toward one’s goals or through the elimination of all “distractions.” In fact, it requires the opposite: an…

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“This coping skill is essentially a protective reaction against threats to the ego. Neuropsychologists have identified the ventral anterior cingulate cortex and the medial…

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“Neuroscientists have observed that several changes in brain function tend to accompany the flow state. The brain’s electrical activity always unfolds in wave patterns.…

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“There is no experience quite like that of driving yourself to the point of wanting to give up and then not giving up. In”

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“A national obsession with a particular sport does not occur in a vacuum. Something lights the match. In the early twentieth century, Finland was…

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“Any athlete who experienced race-level effort completely out of context would instantly regain full respect for its awfulness. If a runner were to suddenly…

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“The scientific name for this pacing mechanism is anticipatory regulation. Its output is a continuously refreshed, intuition-like feeling for how to adjust one’s effort…

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“Sian Beilock, a psychologist and leading expert on choking, defined the phenomenon in her book Choke as “poor performance that occurs in response to…

— Fitzgerald Matt