BITESIZE #72 | Jo Konta: Pain x resistance = suffering
The High Performance Podcast
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🗓️ 24 June 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
This week’s special bitesize clip features the engaging and illuminating Jo Konta, former British No.1 women’s tennis player who won four singles titles, reached the semifinals of Wimbledon and rose to a world ranking of number 4.
In this powerful clip we spoke about the loneliness of pursuing a path of excellence. The harsh, unforgiving spotlight of constant scrutiny and the struggle to maintain equilibrium and balance whilst engaged in the struggle to perform.
Jo shared with us a simple equation which helped re-ignite her passion and led to a significant step change in her performance…Pain x Resistance = Struggle
The more resistance to a challenge, the greater the struggle. Jo learned that when she began reducing her resistance and started seeing the benefits - what it was teaching her - the struggle dissolved.
Listen to the full excellent episode with Jo here: https://www.thehighperformancepodcast.com/podcast/jokonta
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| 0:00.0 | How acceptance prepares you to live in an ever-changing world. |
| 0:06.6 | Welcome to this Bite Size episode of the High Performance Podcast. |
| 0:10.4 | We're very shortly going to play you a clip from Johanna Conta who is a former British |
| 0:15.3 | tennis player. |
| 0:16.3 | She was the British number one. |
| 0:17.9 | She was actually ranked at one point as number four in the world. |
| 0:21.6 | She joined us on the High Performance Podcast. |
| 0:23.9 | We spoke about so much. |
| 0:25.3 | One of the things that we spoke about is the ability to live with pain. |
| 0:30.7 | You're going to hear Johanna talk about her former coach, Juan, who equipped her to deal |
| 0:36.1 | with the fact that sometimes life is difficult. |
| 0:38.7 | Life is basically unpredictable that we don't know what is around the corner. |
| 0:42.7 | So how do we deal with life when we don't know what's about to happen and sometimes |
| 0:46.6 | the thing that does happen is painful? |
| 0:48.5 | Well, you've got to try and look at life through positive eyes, regardless of the situation |
| 0:54.7 | that you're in. |
| 0:55.7 | It's about understanding that acceptance in life is a choice. |
| 0:59.2 | So even when life is difficult, accepting that it's difficult, there'll be people listening |
| 1:04.6 | to this thinking, oh, my boss is so difficult, I don't get on with my boss. |
| 1:08.8 | This isn't an easy concept, but you just need to accept that because the reason why you |
| 1:13.8 | think you should get on with your boss is because you've written a fairy tale in your head |
| 1:16.8 | that your boss is going to be a great person to get along with. |
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