Becoming a Better Learner by Overcoming Anxiety part 8

Here we explore how to learn to be a better leader by overcoming anxiety. How do we deal with the constant scrutiny and decision making? We are called to be leaders in so many areas of our life. How do we do it the best possible. 

Let's talk about the perfectionism trap. So many of us want to get things just right and of course that is extremely challenging. Let's talk about how we make this right.

So often our anxiety particularly gets turned up when we're in an exam room or a work meeting or when we have to present. What drives this and how do we overcome that?

Anxiety is often built around the question, what if? And that what if can turn into a loop that dials up the anxiety. How do we change this?

The purpose of anxiety is to prepare us to do something. Too little or too much causes problems. How do we turn this arousal into something that we can use and makes us better. 

Athletes who miss a shot are trained to replay it in their mind until they can see themselves making it, because the brain barely distinguishes between an outcome it vividly imagines and one it actually lives. This micro episode takes that tool out of the gym and helps you use it in rest of your life. If you get to write the ending yourself, why would you ever let yourself lose?

Anxiety has a different signature in each of us. And understanding our own signature, our own pattern and being able to name it gives us the power to begin to change it.

Stepping into the feeling of success before beginning can make focus easier and results feel inevitable.

Anxiety is an invisible tax on almost everything we do. We have a limited amount of working memory and cognitive function in any given moment. Anxiety taxes that and diminishes our capacity. We Begin exploring how this works and how to overcome it.

Top performers often imagine a boundary around themselves that blocks out distractions and sharpens attention.