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Wednesday, December 7, 2022

“Calm, Clear, and Decisive” - Write It Down Like Richie McCaw


"G.A.B." - Greatest All-Blacks

"You can only be as good as you believe." New Zealand rugby legend Richie McCaw reveals his journaling process. As a young boy around eight, Richie was told by his uncle to write his dream, Richie McGaw, G.A.B. He wrote it and became it. 

Work on your technique, tactics, physicality, psychology

1. Make 'affirmations' part of your process and identity. 

2. Visualize how you play...what you will see and do. 

3. See it and become it. 

4. Writing helps make information more available to us. "Your final decision to write it down makes your brain to memorize it and store it among the things you consider vital to you."

5. Note McCaw says he often writes the same things, the core of his competence..."calm, clear, and decisive." 

Lagniappe. Free throw conditioning. 

Lagniappe 2. Crean wisdom. 

Lagniappe 3. "Jack in the Box?"