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The unconscious mind
I saw this in a book about Eastern European football and it got me thinking about the Naked Golfer ebook. Tony Westwood's philosophy was to say that the unconscious mind knows exactly what to do on a golf course because it it has known what to do, and guided you, since the day you were born. You don't have to think about things and the moment the conscious mind gets involved, ie, when it starts to think too much about golf and the emotioons get involved, you will not be so effective.
In the book I read this:
'The general rule seems to be that the better the footballer, the worse they will remember theior greatest moments. It ia an indication, perhaps, that the best football stems from the unconscious instinct.'
It ties in with the whole concept that we all have talents and it is sometimes only the conscious mind which interferes and prevents up from reaching the potential we all have.
That's a great link. I think it's absolutely right that we can achieve what we want to and that some things we just do, even though we don't know how. F1 racing drivers often say they have no idea what makes a quick lap. They just do it without thinking.
In sport there is a known mechanism called "muscle memory" which is, to some extent, instinctive or even involuntary response of muscles in the body in certain situations. The muscles of a sports person literally "learn" what to do in these situations.
I wonder if experience in a business environment mirrors this? A bit left field, perhaps, but you never know. Do our instincts kick in in certain situations at work and if so can we trust them to be right?
Sport has been years ahead of business in terms of how our minds work, and how we can take control of what we think. DT