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This is an excerpt from Tim Grover's column in Yahoo, discussing how some players just can't make free throws. What's amazing is it can be applied to anything in our life when we're dealing with stress or a high amount of pressure. "If you're never forced to perform under pressure, how can you ever learn to cope with pressure?" ... " Pressure is a privilege. Embrace it, don't fear it. What I can't do is give you drills or routines to calm yourself. That's an internal process only you can develop, and you can't develop it if you're thinking about missing free throws. Ideally, I don't want you thinking at all. Thinking turns your thoughts ON to everything; we want to turn those thoughts off. Not easy. As soon as someone says, "Don't think about it," all you can think about is not thinking. Now you've doubled the pressure. If you have to think about something to keep yourself cool, let...

How do you pick the perfect guitar? TE: " Well, You pick it up and play it and if you can't put it down, and you just want to keep playing it. Then that's probably the guitar for you.  And it doesn't matter where it was made, what name is on it. How much it cost. any of that stuff. It doesn't matter If you love that guitar. It could be some piece of funky old junk, if you love it, then that's the guitar for you.  You know like the truth is I play these guitars 'cause I love 'em. They sound so good. I can do whatever I want with it. But they don't pay me to play them.  I play them because I like em. If I preferred a Martin, or a Taylor or whatever then I'd play one. but I don't. This is the guitar I like.  You gotta find what works for you. People are always asking me what's the best guitar. I'm like the one you can't put down . What are the best strings? The one's that your guitar like. The one's tha...

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 5 "At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: 'I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?' — But it's nicer in here ... So you were born to feel 'nice'? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don't you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you're not willing to do your job as a human being?"

"It's about how you play.  It's not the win or the loss, really. If we win, we won't be that excited and if we lose, we won't be that depressed. Win or lose, it's a matter of improving. that's the deal."  - Gregg Popovich I've heard a version of this concept once or twice now. The idea of having an even keel. To not believe the hype when things are great, and to not despair when things are bad. It really is about the small actions we take that creates that progress, that steady improvement.

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