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Stay-In-The-Now
This week we share a great message from ex- NHL hockey player, speaker and author, Ryan Walter. Ryan's message is about the dichotomy of pressure and how we can use it to push ourselves to greater outcomes and not succumb to the fear of failure.
If you follow NHL hockey, you are watching a sprint! Because of the shortened lock-out season, getting points out of every game has become critical. These regular season games look more like playoff games. Playoffs generate increased pressure on players to perform at a higher level, which in turn generates my topic... the Dichotomy-of-Pressure.
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Increased pressure can create higher expectations and with them even more pressure, yet the more players internalize (or feel) this extra pressure, the tighter they tend to become and correspondingly, their performance is reduced.
This brings to mind a story that I read about the great NBA coach, Phil Jackson. The Chicago Bulls were just 4 seconds away from winning another championship if only they could score 2 more points. Jackson called a time-out when the Bulls had possession of the ball and reportedly said to his players, "I am going to pretend to draw up a complicated play on this board to give our opponent something to think about" but the question that I want to ask you is "after we sink this shot and win the championship what restaurant do you want to celebrate at?" Jackson was looking to keep his players loose, rather than focused on the pressure of this intense moment.
Understanding and managing the dichotomy-of-pressure is much broader than sport; it has life-long implications. When will we feel under the most pressure and yet the most in need of performing at our highest level? At a job interview or during a difficult time on the job or during a difficult relational conversation. The game of hockey is the great accelerator of life. Understanding the principles that work in hockey gives us a head start towards understanding how to perform at our highest level in life.
The reason that high-pressured situations create such internal angst is because the perception of what might happen changes our focus.
High pressured situations get our brains focused on... Outcomes, thinking ahead towards “What if we lose?”
This can become a vicious cycle because as we continue to think about what might happen, internal pressure increases. When players are playing their best hockey, their focus is in-the-moment, not on the potential outcome. John Wooden, the winningest Coach in NCAA Basketball College history said,
“I don’t worry about winning and losing [outcomes]; I worry about practicing the details that give us the win [process]."
Wooden gives great insight into how we can help our players before and during high pressured games to stay-in-the-NOW, emotionally, rather than focusing on OUTCOMES.
Much has been written about helping your players get IN the ZONE. This place of maximum performance only comes when players are relaxed, empty, and reacting. At times coaches can also internalize the pressure felt before high stakes games. Because of this, they feel that they must extra-prepare their team and therefore give extra information with extra intensity. In these situations it is equally important to understand and manage the dichotomy-of-pressure. To stay in the zone, players need to think less, concentrate less, and enjoy more flow. Flow is a good word!
It was my great pleasure to play in 113 Playoff Games during my NHL career. Understanding how to be your best under extreme pressure is a process that is learned best through experience. Early in my NHL playoff experience I did not perform as well as I needed to. Those early playoff games came with the Montreal Canadiens. I had already internalized a large amount of pressure when I was traded from the Washington Capitals and arrived to this headline in the Montreal Gazette: "Worst trade in NHL History!" The pressure I felt to meet high expectations was exacerbated as we headed into the first round of the playoffs. It's no wonder we lost 3 games straight in the old best of 5 first-round format.
Gradually I learned from watching veteran players like Guy Lafleur, Larry Robinson and Bob Gainey. High pressured situations were handled lightly, with more humor and less intensity. Everyone knows that you MUST win, but understanding the dichotomy-of-pressure reveals that you must let the energy flow, relax more and enjoy the process. Our Canadiens team learned this concept during the 1980s while winning a Stanley Cup in 86 and losing a cup at the end of the 1989 season.
The ZONE is a fun place! It is a loose place! Staying IN the ZONE (where you play your very best) is an enjoyable process of reacting and not thinking. A famous sports psychologist's illustration has greatly helped me to understand the physiology of what happens when we are under pressure. Place a 12 foot long 2 X 8 piece of wood on the ground, and ask one of your players to run across it. What happens? That player doesn't even think twice. He or she says, "No problem," and runs across the board with a big smile. Now take this same 2 X 8 and raise it 8 feet by stretching it across two ladders and ask that same player to run across.
What changed? The thought process of the player immediately moved to potential outcomes: "What if I fall?"
The player now slows down his or her process and thinks through each step and consequently, under-performs.
Leaders must help players grow in their understanding of the dichotomy-of-pressure if they want to see their corporate, family, and sports teams play up to their potential during times of increased pressure. The key question in your players' minds must move away from, "What happens if we lose?" towards, "How to stay in the moment, focused on the process, enjoying the competition, firmly IN the ZONE?"
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Have a great week unless you choose otherwise.
Drago
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