A host explores the concept of enoughness and how adopting a beginner’s mindset—no expectations, present readiness, and getting into ready position—can create moments of unexpected success often labeled as beginner’s luck.
I am already indeed enough, as it says on my shirt. This idea of affirming that in this moment you are already capable of doing something pretty remarkable. It doesn't just come out of nowhere. It comes out of this whole world of enoughness.
How many of you have ever had that experience of like, first time luck or like, never played the game before and all of a sudden you win the game? It's actually not luck. It's Sports Psychology 101. What makes you a winner? Getting to ready position first.
I wouldn't trade her for gold I'm walking on moonbeam. I was born with silver stone. And I'm gonna be. Morning, chris fortman. Hey, jules. Sm. With that being said, this idea of enoughness, I am already indeed enough, as it says on my shirt. That's, that's, that's at the heart of all the things that I ever talk with you about. This idea of affirming that in this moment you are already capable of doing something pretty remarkable. It doesn't just come out of nowhere. It comes out of this whole world of enoughness.
And today I wanted to talk to you about an embodiment of what enoughness looks like. How many of you have ever had that experience of like, first time luck or like, never played the game before and all of a sudden you win the game? Normally it shows up in like the, like skeeball or bowling or, or like topgolf or mini golf or like in blackjack or poker, right? All of a sudden the person who's never played before is the one who seemingly has this magical capacity to do better than all the people who've done the thing for a long time.
Who's ever had that experience? Go ahead and type in the chat, let me know, let me know where your first time luck story presented, and then I'm going to tell you that it's actually not luck. It's, it's psychological. It's Sports Psychology 101. I talk all the time. Whenever I'm talking to an audience where sports psychology comes up, I use a couple of, of data points every single time. Number one, the team that wins is not the team that is strongest, best, working hardest. It's not the team that actually has the greatest capacity.
Stronger, harder, faster, deeper does not make you a winner. What makes you a winner? Getting to ready position first. Think about it. Any, any great athlete, the thing that they do best is not being innately better than one another, but being always in the position where the opportunity to win is at hand. That's all that sport is. Oh, table tennis. Good old ping pong jewels. I bet everyone who was playing against you, like, looked at you like you were possessed by the table tennis goddesses of the world shining down on you.
And I'll tell you why. I think it was the case in a moment. That beginner's luck. What's happening in that moment? Well, what are you thinking about when you were experiencing beginner's luck? I've never done this before. Let's see what happens. Oh, this is fun. Doing Something new. I don't care about this. Oh, they obviously care about it. I don't care about it. I've never done before. This is new. If you put on your enoughness goggles, do you see that everything that I just said in my beginner's luck mindset is Enoughness101.
Michael Jordan, Serena Williams, like all these superstar athletes, they get really good at getting to beginners mindset again and again and again and again. No expectations, no understanding of like, well, this is what's happened the last 99 times. So obviously it's going to happen again. Or is it, Gosh, I'm really annoyed. This little thing that keeps happening, or it happened 10 years ago or it's going to happen again. Enoughness says, hey, right now is what I have available. And I'm going to put that to use.
Jules in high school playing table tennis, hey, here's what I have. Here's what I have. I'm going to put it to use. If you want to be the highest performer in your existence and in the existence around you, give yourself the opportunity to acknowledge that you don't need to be better tomorrow to be good today. You don't need to do everything you did yesterday in order to accomplish what you can accomplish right now. And you may go, it's like, well, this also kind of sounds like thin space. Like you talk about it on Sundays.
JC and I go, yep, because it's all coming out of this enoughness bucket. So no matter where you are, no matter what's going on this morning, maybe I invite you to try something new today. But in the enoughness world, we don't need to try things new. Nuzzle into where you are and what you have at hand and look at it with fresh eyes, see what happens. I'll bet you a nickel you're going to perform pretty well. We'll keep it going here and staring out to sea and if a door be closed then a road for home start.
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