What We Can Learn from Elite Athletes

A bunch of years ago, I was watching the Olympics, and I noticed that all of the reporters always asked all of the athletes the same question, which is, are you nervous, or were you nervous? And all of the athletes answered the question the exact same way. No, I'm excited. No, I was excited. And I realized that the characteristics of. Of nervousness are clammy hands, your heart starts pounding, you start envisioning the future. The characteristics of excitement are clammy hands, your heart starts pounding, you start envisioning the future. But the reason the journalists were asking, are you nervous? Is because they would be nervous, where these elite athletes had learned the mindset and learned to interpret that anxiety as excitement. And so all of the athletes gave the same answer, and all of the journalists asked the same question, because the journalists aren't elite athletes.