Michael Jordan visualized thousands of three-pointers before taking them, rehearsing the crowd's reaction and the feeling of success. Mental rehearsal of your goal, done repeatedly, makes you more likely to achieve it and helps you ignore people who doubt you.
Michael Jordan said that he shot more three pointers in his mind than he ever did in real life. He used to just constantly visualize how the crowd would react, what his competitors facial reaction would be. That was playing defense on him, and he would actually feel what it was like to hit that three pointer every single time. There are endless athletes that talk about the power of visualization and actually rehearsing over and over and over in their mind the outcome that it is that they're trying to achieve. If you don't know where it is that you're going and how you're going to get there, then the chances of you getting there are very, very slim. You need to get clear of what is that passion. And if you were to reach that pinnacle of what would it actually feel like? And constantly rehearsing that and indoctrinating yourself against all the naysayers wanting you to be vanilla.
