IAN: I’m gonna ask you to do something now that I don’t know whether you can do it, and you don’t know whether you can do it, or how you’re gonna do it. Here’s the problem. I want you to have a go at doing it, but that’s gonna make you potentially feel uncomfortable. Imagine if you’d been brought up with this attitude, you’d be going, “Phew. Right. Come on. Bring it on. This is, this is exciting,” rather than “Oh, I’m scared of this.”
But it’s a complete mindset change.
If you’ve been brought up where you’re gonna get shouted at every time you make a mistake, or you’re gonna get some really helpful coach giving you feedback help you get better at it, ‘cause, I mean, that’s why we, you know, we focus on error, isn’t it? To correct it. Well, if you’ve been brought up like that, every time you make a mistake, you’ll go into your mind thinking, “Oh, what, what did I do wrong there?” And you can get over-analytical about it.
NOAH: I guess becoming an expert at anything is your ability to, to work through that discomfort of the metastability phase, right? It’s like, “Oh, I wanna go back to what I know,” but you’ve gotta keep pressing forward, right?
IAN: And it comes back to managing the psychology, managing the emotions, doesn’t it? Of not overdoing it, but getting them to understand that this is normal.
