Mongero Monday #16 with guest, Dr. Tom Hanson, Co-Author of Heads-Up Baseball, Heads-Up Baseball 2.0 and author of Play Big Baseball. Dr. Tom Hanson has coached baseball players from Little League to Big League World Champions, and executives from small business to Fortune 500 companies. His cutting edge approach to performance has made him the “go-to guy” for athletes and others chasing big dreams. His client list includes the New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, Microsoft, and Verizon.
Show Notes:
- Mental books.
- How to overcome confidence problems, confidence issues.
- The mental game is the true separator.
- The three E’s: Ease, evolve, excel.
- Number one design function for humans is safety. We are built to be safe not to play baseball.
- Information comes in through our senses and it goes into the amygdala.
- When your body is not safe then it goes into fight flight or freeze mode.
- When your body goes into these modes it exceeds tension.
- “We stop breathing because we don’t want to be seen.
- In high pressure situations the faster you can tell your brian it’s not a threat the faster you’ll succeed.
- Breath, focal point.
- Fun equals free.
- Confidence is a belief in yourself and your teammates.
- Act as if you are confident!
- Breathe, breathe big!
- The breath is counteracting the perception of threat.
- Try breathing in and out through your nose.
- Big C: is commit big and has a clear mission.
- Act like you have been there before.
- Find what works for you!
- ABC= Act, Breathe, Commit.
- As humans we learn by failure.
- Freedom to fail.
- “Play Big” is a great book to read.
- Sometimes emotion does seem to override logic.
- It’s hard to be a parent sometimes because you have no control of what your kid does. “Their attitude, their effort etc.
- “Stick to your plan, and try not to deviate from it.”
- “The way the games are designed, it’s more of an even keel processing, not letting the moment get too big. Moving on and being strategic and competing against the game.”
- How you handle yourself, and how you handle failure.
- So as a parent today, my biggest point would be to really educate yourself on the environment of what’s there, because I think he could advance better as a player had he gotten on other teams.
- Why are certain players better in practice rather than in a game?
- In practice there is a level of safeness.
- While in the game there are a lot of people watching which creates tension.
- Reps are very important but you need another station where they are taking their time and breaths to simulate a game like situation.
- Practice needs to be a blend between a comfortable environment and a stressful environment.
- Redefining what success really is.
- “You’re shaping how they perceive the situation”.
- If you can reward and foster now…then the player will be interested.
- “My focus as a coach is to help the game occur as a fun challenge rather than a dangerous threat.”
- When the coach is getting out of control you will see the players do that same thing.
- People act consistent to who they think they are.
- Connect with the ideal you, what player can you imagine yourself being in the future?
- Leadership
- “Work the process”.
- A big part of the mental game is to accept things the way they are.
- “It was the visualization and the focus that led to the consistency I brought everyday.
- Information versus transformation.
