Sport Psych Saturday

Hello, Cadre family. My name is Garrett and I am our expert in sport and performance psychology. Happy Saturday to you all. I just got back from a two week train trip in Oklahoma at Fort Sill, the Army base there. Doing a two week training at that base, getting trained up on some stuff related to army curriculum and working with soldiers there. Got to see some cool stuff, some drill sergeants that were straight out of a movie yelling at their basic trainees, and also some positive stuff as well.

Learned a lot. So for today and for our Saturday, I want to ask you a quick question. If you were doing a task or when you do a task, how much of your focus is actually on the task at hand? If you had to say how many focus points you have on that task, how many would that be? Whatever that task might be, whether it be writing an email, talking to a friend, doing something at work, maybe in a meeting, whatever that task might be, how much of that is focused on the task and how much of that is focused on yourself?

Or maybe judging yourself? And that brings me to just talking about the concept of task focused attention versus self focused attention. And self focused attention is self judging. That's where we're analyzing our thoughts. We're analyzing the past or the future, internal or external threats, maybe consequences of our performance or our task. And attention is limited, as we all intuitively know. And that essentially takes away from the focus on the task at hand. Hi, speak wonder. Thank you for joining.

Happy Saturday. So since that takes it away from the task at hand, that can be, for example, if I'm doing a test, an academic test, and my whole thought process is, you know, if I, if I pass this, I'm going to get these rewards. If I fail this, I'm gonna. I'm gonna have these consequences, whatever that might be. On the flip side of that, we have task focus attention. Just as the name implies, where you are focused on the task at hand, you are focused on the present moment, maybe you have an external target that you're locked in on.

Overall, the. The process is something that you're looking at. And this kind of goes back to my previous videos of being where your feet are in the importance of that concept. And that is the main takeaway, again, from this difference in these two concepts, again, of self focus tension and task focus tension is be where feet are. Recognize when your attention is drifting outside of the task at hand. That will help you be a little bit more efficient with your overall focus, and you can see why it helps our overall performance.

Hope you enjoyed that. Have a good rest of your Saturday, and I will see you all later.