Elite Minds: Creating the Competitive Advantage

Do you have something in your life you want badly enough that you are willing to sacrifice everything else in order to achieve it?

You will never perform to your ability if you think the necessary is the possible. The best thing you can do to improve your performance is to think you are doing worse than you actually are, not better.

become obsessed with how you spend your time, the choices you make, and who you hang out with.

In order for you to reach your potential, you must know how you respond to poor performance. This is critical information you simply cannot move forward without.

“This is what you want—a goal that will get your full attention. One that will get your adrenaline flowing and make you feel like you are approaching the edge. We are almost finished. Now rewrite your goal so that you only have a 60 percent chance of success and a 40 percent chance of failure. That’s your goal.”

When you have intention, you don’t need a goal. The goal is not about the what and the how, but about the why.

the purpose of practice is to prepare for competition. For a competitive athlete, everything—and I mean everything—you do in practice should be to prepare for competition.

Intention is powerful because it addresses the question of why?

Performing at the highest level is not about talent, ability, size, speed, facilities, equipment, weather conditions, or even effort. It’s about being free. Free from expectations of self and others, free from criticism, free from fear, and free from “should” and “have to.”