…Fast Execution, is one of the statements that goes towards making up Oblique Strategies and this particular one speaks 100% to everything that being an elite performer is all about. The typical approach we get to see is Fast (or no) Preparation and Frantic Execution. The lack of preparation leads to lack of total control [...]
The athletes we work with often have the benefit of video analysis of their training sessions, taken for them by their coach. Having delivered a training session, the coach and athlete will sit down and analyse the “performance”, sometimes frame by frame to determine how effectivley fundamentals have been delivered and how well goals for [...]
So, just before the Olympics, we were chatting with some of the athletes about the opportunities still left to mentally sharpen up and get the most out of the remaining preparation days. We challenged them to answer the following:“If out of all of the days you’ve had to prepare for Beijing, you knew that tomorrow [...]
and we mean a coach like the athletes we work with. With such a coach, they would be observing your performances and preparation and giving you feedback both during and after your moments of engagement. They’d be reinforcing good stuff, pointing out things to check, highlighting problems to work on and generally being supportive.So… if [...]
It’s clear to us that when the conditions are favourable, people get very used to being able to get away with minimal preparation - your natural talents, allied with the helpful environment, conspire to get you to where you want to be. The conditions lull you into a false sense of security about how much [...]
If the kind of objective feedback that you’re used to has gone awol, it can be pretty difficult to judge yourself in the way that you’re used to. This is a bit like when the sports people we work with have to perform in very different weather conditions - the way they or the equipment [...]
A busy week for us at K2, hence the lack of missives. Back to it though.We were thinking about the fundamental things that underpin performance this week and as any good student will tell you (!), the first thing to do when thinking about something is to look it up in the dictionary and provide [...]
It’s interesting how by creating a whole “eve” concept, it adds to the excitement of what’s to come. Would Christmas Day be quite so exciting without the clear, exciting signposts that are Christmas Eve? Probably not quite as exciting, although the day would still hold its own charms and rituals. However, there’s some useful learning [...]
In this video we see Prof Richard Wiseman (of “The Luck Factor” and “Quirkology“) demonstrating that firewalking is a load of old tosh. Most enjoyable, as although we believe in the power of the mind sometimes it can be taken a bit too far! Fine line, genius and insanity!
It got me thinking about the power [...]
Someone mentioned today that there is opportunity in chaos…Seems like a sensible assertion. And there is opportunity for sure, providing your know what abilities you have to exploit that opportunity. It’s been said that “chance favours the prepared mind” and these two ideas sit nicely together. Opportunity and the prepared mind.How prepared is your individual, [...]