Key Takeaways:
- Self-confidence is the most important skill as a soccer player
- Ability to believe in yourself that you can accomplish it, no matter the odds
- It can be trained: Repetition, Repetition, Repetition (10.000 h rule)
- Problem: We expect to be. We want to be in the situation where I did this a 1000 times
- Repetition → How many stop after the first failure → You have to be persistent
- Get out there. Don't accept a no
- Negative self-talk → Wen need to tell ourselves that we can do it. Thoughts influence actions.
- I am the captain of my ship and the master of my faith
- Get away from people that tear you down
- Remind yourself in quiet moments about all the things that make you who you are
- Write a letter to your self → All the things you are proud of
- Do not feel about yourself good → This letter gets you through the storm
- Trainers are critical by nature → They fix mistakes but this crushes a person. Praise people and build them up, others hear it and will adapt it too
- Catch them when they are good!
- Self-confident people interpret feedback as they want it
- Take away: No one is believing in you if you don't
- We are supposed to be different
- beliefe in youselfe