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Dr. Jim Loehr: Tennis competitiveness is revealed between points, not during them
“If I just took video of people playing points, you couldn't tell how mentally tough or how effective they were under pressure. But if I looked at the between point time only, You could tell who were those that were actually extraordinarily good competitors and…”
Loehr: Novak Djokovic is the greatest tennis player of all time
“Novak Djokovic, who's probably the greatest tennis player, is the greatest tennis player of all time.”
Loehr: A parent's spoken voice becomes their child's lifelong inner monologue
“Because your public voice will one day be their inner voice, which controls their destiny, their belief in themselves, their joy and happiness in life.”
Dr. Jim Loehr: The human brain discards sensory information contradicting preexisting beliefs
“We don't have direct contact with the real world. We have all this data streaming into our five sensory portals. And then our big neural processor has to make sense out of that. And there's a preference for making sense in terms of what's already been loaded i…”
Loehr: The first rule of internal self-talk is strict alignment with reality
“And the first thing is, the rule has to be true. Is this aligned with reality? So the first awareness, am I making stuff up here that just is convenient for the moment to maybe make me feel better? Or is this aligned with really objective reality? That's the f…”
Loehr: Internal self-talk should pass the public 'jumbotron test'
“That you intentionally, purposefully orchestrate them so that these stories are aligned with the best part of you, and if they were made known publicly to all the people that you know, or put on a jumbotron, you would be proud of the way you have been coaching…”
Dr. Jim Loehr: Athletes with moral character sustain success longer
“People who developed these moral and ethical skills from their coaches and parents, along with the skills of the sport, they were the true winners, and they were much more likely to sustain the success because everyone wanted them to succeed.”
Loehr: Handwriting alters neural networks more effectively than other cognitive methods
“What we finally concluded was that your hand Your hand writing probably had the greatest impact on neurological functioning on the way in which these neural networks formed and were changed than anything else we could do.”
Loehr: A harsh inner critic creates an exhausting two-front psychological battle
“It's not this harsh inner critic where they're actually fighting two battles all the time. One with the outside world and one with themselves. It's an exhaustive two front battle.”
Dr. Jim Loehr: Sledgehammer mandates fail to curb adolescent risky behavior
“And some of it, like drinking and driving or taking drugs, they're really, really dangerous areas to talk about. And just swinging a sledgehammer probably is not going to get through Mission Control Central. You're going to have to spend time getting them to t…”
Loehr: Most world-class performers had no early awareness of their genius
“These folks who become such extraordinary examples of genius, most of them had no clue. No clue that this is where they're going to end up. And they tended to end up in a situation where they had the opportunity to flourish.”
Dr. Jim Loehr: Time Has No Real Value Until It Intersects With Energy
“Time has no value, has no valence, has no force until time intersects with energy.”
Loehr: Ritualized 16-second breaks enable complete physiological recovery in tennis
“We developed this, what is called the 16:02 cure in tennis, where in 16 seconds between points, when you ritualize it, you can get complete and total recovery, and we validated that in using telemetry, heart rate telemetry.”
Loehr: Chronic stress without recovery, not stress itself, causes harm
“It's like, it's not stress that's killing you. It's chronic stress. It's stress unabated by recovery.”
Loehr: Emotions drive performance neurochemistry more than logical thinking
“Emotions probably drive more of the chemistry than anything.”
Dr. Jim Loehr: Controlling internal chemistry requires projecting external posture
“If you want to control the chemistry, you have to look on the outside the way you want to feel on the inside.”
Loehr Coached 17 Athletes to World Number One Rankings
“I've had 17 people that have become number one in the world.”
Loehr: Storytelling Reaches Children Far Better Than Direct Preaching
“What kids don't want to be Is preached to. They don't want to be preached to. The great wisdom seekers in, in our history, when they were trying to, let's say in the American Indian tradition, they would tell stories. They tell stories that actually don't brin…”
Dr. Jim Loehr: Tennis players spend 70% of a match between points
“And about 70% of a match is not when people are playing points. They're, it's actually between point time, which is major.”
Dr. Jim Loehr: Steffi Graf spent the shortest time between points
“We found that Steffi Graf at that time Took the shortest amount of time of anyone on the tour. So we said, you need at least 16 seconds.”
Loehr: Morning Journaling Reprograms Mindset to Handle Daily Adversity
“If you put that down in writing, something magical happens. It's like it changes the whole kind of template, the screen, the mindset you have For, you know, dealing with all the storms that you are inevitably going to face all day long so it doesn't become a n…”