Up On Game: How to sharpen your mind

Sports Motivation Podcast

Niyi Sobo

Sports, Business

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Most people love to validate themselves and surround themselves with "yes" men.

This will only leave you stuck, frustrated and with an inflated and fragile ego. You must do the opposite, and find people to challenge you and expose the lies you tell yourself. In this episode I break down why, and how.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. This is your host, Knees Showbo. Today is another episode of Up on Game. It's where I introduce you to something that I feel is valuable to you as you roam this jungle, looking, hunting, killing, eating, providing, doing what you do, accomplishing goals at the highest level, whether it's in sports,
0:23.6	business, et cetera, you and I are cut from similar claws where people who desire to live life
0:29.0	at a high level, play a different type of game, play our own game, be independent, be in full
0:35.0	control, and dominate in our fields, be the best in our field. If you're
0:39.9	afraid to say that, this ain't for you. You want to aim to be the best, the absolute best and
0:45.3	standard in your arena. And that's what we're doing, right? So what I want to put you up on game
0:51.5	on right now is really a trap. So I want to tell you, help you to be
0:57.3	aware of something that will serve as a trap for you and get you caught up in a bad way. And
1:03.4	that's this bias that we have, this self-confirmation bias. We like to affirm to ourselves that we're
1:10.5	doing the right thing. And so what happens
1:12.7	is we will be living our life in a certain way, attacking our goals in a certain way, attacking
1:18.3	certain goals in a certain way. And we will want to believe that we're doing the right thing
1:25.1	as according to our vision, as according to the big picture. And the trap is not just that we're doing the right thing as according to our vision as according to the
1:27.6	big picture. And the trap is not just that we believe this because that's normal. All of us
1:33.0	will get caught up in our own head. All of us will tell ourselves lies over and over in order
1:38.6	to make ourselves feel better about what we're doing. Whether it's, oh yeah, I should definitely,
1:43.1	you know, stay working at this job or, oh, yeah, I should definitely, you know, stay working
1:44.3	at this job or stay in this relationship or I should definitely, you know, not start this
1:49.8	business yet. I should definitely, you know, yeah, it makes a lot of sense. We tell ourselves
1:54.9	these lies. And then it gets even worse when we stick around people who only serve to affirm
2:00.1	what we're doing in a way that makes
2:04.1	us feel good.
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