A short video/interview with Dr. Alex Auerbach discussing how athletes can manage mistakes during games by creating a personal system to process errors. He emphasizes that mistakes are common at all levels and processing should occur at the right time (usually not during play).
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So I think it's. It's actually, I see the two as pretty linked, which is, I think people often feel difficulty moving on from a mistake in the game when they don't have a great system for managing the mistake afterward. And so if you. If you don't have a way that you're going to process these mistakes that you've made in the game, which, by the way, like, is happening at every level of sport. Right. Like, the best NBA shooters are shooting 40% from three. Right. So 60% of the time there's a mistake. Right? Right. Or there's not the optimal outcome. And so I think the best players create a system for themselves to process that mistake at the right time. Right. Which is usually honestly not in the moment. Right. So if you're in the middle of a soccer game, let's say, and you miss a pass or you overshoot it or you miss a wide open net, it's probably not the time to be wondering, well, next time maybe I'll lean a little bit forward or, oh, gosh, I wonder if I would have done it this way, how would that have turned out?