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A high performance mindset requires being eager in the face of the mundane and the vexing. Part of the challenge of understanding this is simply that we see the products of success. And so you might see an NBA player at the peak of their career doing something amazing. You might see a captain of business handling with aplomb the challenges of their work, but you don’t see the precursors to that. Training in basketball for me was so boring.
I remember doing entire sessions that were just me catching a ball, doing a pivot, pivoting back, passing the ball for half an hour. But that’s what you need to be able to tolerate if you’re trying to achieve something remarkable because it comes through handling stuff that frustrates and confuses you, and it comes through repetition, ad nauseam of things that seem small and unimportant until they’re combined. Hello. My name is John Amache. I’m a psychologist, a professor of leadership at the University of Exeter Business School.
I’ve written a couple of books, including The Promises of Giants, and I used to play basketball in the NBA.