Baseball player Grady visualizes before every at-bat, sitting on the bench with his eyes closed to mentally rehearse the pitch and imagine positive outcomes. He started the routine in his sophomore year playoffs facing hard-throwing lefty Jason Hill, and credits it with building confidence.
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I do a lot of visualization because I believe the more you visualize a positive outcome, the more times you're going to get that positive outcome. I do it before every at bat. You know, people know by now. I go, I grab my stuff, I put it on, and if I'm not on deck or if I'm. Even if I am on deck sort of sometimes, I will always, if I'm not on deck, I'm in the dugout. I will sit down on the bench and I'll put my head down, close my eyes, and I will visualize what I'm going to do in. In this next at bat. I'm going to visualize the pitch, I'm going to visualize the whole at bat and I'm going to go through it and just have all these positive outcomes going through my mind so that when I get up there, I'm confident because I see myself having success and I visualize what I'm going to do and I feel like I'm the most prepared I can be going into those at bats.
Wow. So I. That is. That's powerful. How long do you do that on the bench for? And you said everyone knows it. So I guess every team you're on, they can almost expect when you're in the hole or something like, okay, where's Grady? Oh, we know. Yeah. Yeah. So, like, I guess, how long have you been doing that and how long does that take when you do do it?
So I started doing that. My. What would that been? My sophomore year in playoffs against any kind of a really competitive game. There's a kid, his name is Jason Hill. Lefty, 95, 97, top 98. Like, just. He's a big time name around here. And I just remember talking to my dad, he's like, well, you got to visualize the success. You got to visualize you having a positive outcome because you can't go up there scared and you can't go up there just hoping.
