"They Wanted A Bad Guy, So I Became One" - Ryan Garcia - #1097
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm fascinated by you saying that you don't think when you're in the ring. |
| 0:04.0 | What's happening? |
| 0:05.0 | I'm just picking up on cues, really. |
| 0:08.0 | And then kind of like there's these instincts and intuition that are just kind of there. |
| 0:13.0 | You know, like, oh, maybe, like, you kind of get a feeling where, okay, I need to start putting pressure on this man, or I need to, you know, move a little bit. |
| 0:21.3 | It's just like kind of momentum shifts that you're kind of noticing a little by little. And then there's obviously times where I'm thinking, like sometimes I'll just have like mantras in my hand like that I've done in camp, you know, stay focused. Like a last fight the whole time when I was fighting him, I would just say like stay focus, stay focus, stay focus. You you know so it was just like little things that I would say in my mind but I'm not |
| 0:41.2 | really necessary thinking mm-hmm not thinking but thinking but yeah of course does that mean |
| 0:49.4 | when you look back on a fight how much of it can you remember? The pivotal moments like um like my last |
| 0:58.8 | fight, uh, I remember I started getting comfortable in like the 11th round, just messing with the guy |
| 1:04.4 | smacking them looking at the trainer and then lowering my hand a little bit and then, you know, |
| 1:09.2 | tasting the right hand and I was like, |
| 1:16.5 | don't do that. And then kind of like stabbing myself back in. So I remember those moments. I remember, |
| 1:24.3 | you know, when I dropped them, but I mean, for the most part, I have to like look back at the fight to really recall most of it. |
| 1:44.5 | And that's strange. It is weird. It's so strange. So I'm friends with musicians, comedians, sports people, and I do live stuff too, these conversations. Once you get into a flow state and you're not thinking that much and things are just happening, that's what people want to get to. It's really enjoyable. It's where your performance is at its best. |
| 1:48.1 | You're moving quickly. Your brain isn't getting in the way of what you're supposed to do. |
| 1:55.1 | But it's also the thing that kind of robs you of your memory because you're not thinking and you're just doing. |
| 2:03.0 | Yeah. You can't remember it. It's so funny. I mean, obviously, your job is not to have a good time. Your job is to win. |
| 2:08.3 | Yeah. And winning requires you to be in the best state possible. But it is funny that the mental state that humans perform best in is also the one that they can remember the least. So I wonder |
| 2:13.7 | how many people that are elite performers, comedians, artists, musicians, |
| 2:18.3 | sports stars look back on their career and they go, I'm glad that it was video, dude, |
| 2:23.3 | because I kind of wasn't really there for it all that much. |
| 2:26.3 | Yeah, I mean, it is interesting. |
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