Dr. Don WoodResolving Your Trauma-Based Challenges So You Can Unlock Peak Performance

You Must Be Out of Your Mind Podcast Ep3 clip2

19 Aug 2022 · 1 min

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A brief podcast clip (You Must Be Out of Your Mind Podcast Ep3 clip2) in which the hosts discuss the importance of being present. Speaker B emphasizes "present is everything," while Dr. Don Wood applies the idea to athletes—especially golfers—and contrasts human minds (prone to dwelling on past/future) with animal minds (described as 100% present, using the zebra/lion example). The clip argues presence improves performance and well-being.

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Present is everything. And that doesn't mean all your memories are bad. That doesn't mean that all your stuff in the future is anxiety. That just means if you can stay in the moment now, what an amazing.
Life we can create. Yeah, especially. Especially too, when I work with athletes. You know, golf. Let's take golf as an example. There's probably no better sport, right. To use that as an illustration of being present because they tend to go off on their thoughts and they start thinking about things. They. And I said, what you have to understand is the comparison between the human mind and animal mind. Animal minds are 100% present all the time. They're only dealing with what's happening now. They don't. So I always say the zebra cannot feel fear of a lion unless there's a lion present. Zebras aren't thinking about lions. They're not imagining lions. They don't remember the lion from yesterday. Right. So they're living in the moment. And so it's a perfectly designed system.