Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode

1,740. Today I want to read to you a quote from Raphael Nadal. I got this quote from

the Brain Food Nudes letter. You've heard me talk about it before, Shane Parrish and Company. Many of

the people who work with him do an outstanding job with some great work. So listen to this

quote. I really like this. Quote, one lesson I've learned is that if the job I do were easy,

I wouldn't derive so much satisfaction from it. The thrill of winning is in direct proportion

to the effort I put in before. I also know from long experience that if you make an

effort in training when you don't especially feel like making it, the payoff is that you will

win games when you are not feeling your best. That is how you win championships. That is what

separates the great player from the merely good player. The difference lies in how well you've prepared.

Now, there's so much we can talk about from this quote,

but the one I really want to talk about is this notion on feelings.

We've talked about performing and doing what you need to do regardless of how you feel and that's exactly what

Rafael Nadal is saying he goes on to say that if you make an effort in training when you don't

feel like it it's going to help you play at your best when you don't feel like it we always talk

about in performance making sure your training environment matches

your performance environment to the best of your ability. It's not always going to be one to one

and you can't always replicate actual in-game performance. However, there are going to be moments

when you don't feel like performing at your best. You're not going to feel your best. You're not going to feel your best. However, if you have practiced training when you don't feel your

best, you're going to be able to look back in those days of competition. When you don't feel good,

you're going to look back and say, you know what? I've trained like this before. There have been

moments when I pushed myself to do what I needed to do when I didn trained like this before. There have been moments when I pushed myself

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