Tiger Woods: The Purpose Of Drilling
Because you have changed your focus, your actions and likely, the outcome will be different. Your goal was no longer to walk from one side to the other. Your goal has become not to fall off.
In one word, you lost confidence.
We see examples of this every day in professional sports. Now I have never met Tiger Woods, nor am I an expert on golf; but I am pretty certain the difference between the results Tiger Woods has achieved in recent years and those he achieved earlier in his career has everything to do with confidence. Confidence in his body, his back and his knee, to hold up. Confidence in his ability to execute a “new” swing. Confidence in his ability to sink a putt. In his hey-day he looked at the ball, he looked at the hole and …show more content…
We train our bodies, improve our fitness, so that we have the strength and stamina required by a long tournament. When you have trained physically, you have confidence that your body will hold up throughout the long day ahead. When we practice and drill, we learn the technique of a particular shot. We drill until we can hit 50 or 100 dinks back to our partner without missing. By doing this, we develop trust in our ability to dink again and again. We train, we drill, we practice so that we trust ourselves. With this trust comes confidence. Our focus is not on missing the shot, but rather on our ability to do it again and again without fail. When we are training, we should be working on improving our technique. However when we are playing, our focus is on trust rather than …show more content…
We are all familiar with Pavlov’s famous experiment with dogs. Pavlov sounded a bell as the dogs were given food. The animals salivated when they saw the food. The sound of the bell became associated with the food, and thus over time the bell alone elicited salivation. This effect is commonly called anchoring. Anchors are used by realtors when they bake cookies or fresh bread in an oven during an open house. These smells make many recall memories of a happy home, and thus make the attendees more inclined to view the house positively. Stage hypnotists create anchors that may cause someone to quack like a duck on
In one word, you lost confidence.
We see examples of this every day in professional sports. Now I have never met Tiger Woods, nor am I an expert on golf; but I am pretty certain the difference between the results Tiger Woods has achieved in recent years and those he achieved earlier in his career has everything to do with confidence. Confidence in his body, his back and his knee, to hold up. Confidence in his ability to execute a “new” swing. Confidence in his ability to sink a putt. In his hey-day he looked at the ball, he looked at the hole and …show more content…
We train our bodies, improve our fitness, so that we have the strength and stamina required by a long tournament. When you have trained physically, you have confidence that your body will hold up throughout the long day ahead. When we practice and drill, we learn the technique of a particular shot. We drill until we can hit 50 or 100 dinks back to our partner without missing. By doing this, we develop trust in our ability to dink again and again. We train, we drill, we practice so that we trust ourselves. With this trust comes confidence. Our focus is not on missing the shot, but rather on our ability to do it again and again without fail. When we are training, we should be working on improving our technique. However when we are playing, our focus is on trust rather than …show more content…
We are all familiar with Pavlov’s famous experiment with dogs. Pavlov sounded a bell as the dogs were given food. The animals salivated when they saw the food. The sound of the bell became associated with the food, and thus over time the bell alone elicited salivation. This effect is commonly called anchoring. Anchors are used by realtors when they bake cookies or fresh bread in an oven during an open house. These smells make many recall memories of a happy home, and thus make the attendees more inclined to view the house positively. Stage hypnotists create anchors that may cause someone to quack like a duck on