“I was talking to myself,” Boston Celtics player Jaylen Brown said to the media. He was describing how before a play began with his team down 3 points with a few seconds to go he told himself, “If I get this shot… it’s going up and it’s going in.’”
Brown made the shot.
It’s hard to made a direct statistical correlation between giving yourself a pep talk and then accomplishing a big goal. But on the other hand, it’s hard to imagine many people who go onto make that shot who tell themselves beforehand that they won’t.
So what you do have to lose, literally? Believe. Have faith. Tell yourself when you face a big test or are given a big opportunity, “It’s going up and it’s going in.”
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