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Jim Loehr

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  1. “Well, it's interesting that, you know, it's just like a muscle. You don't know how strong the muscle is. Until you exceed its limits, until it fails. Sometimes you have what you think is a pretty strong foundation now with your private voice. But in this situation, you've felt you were cheated. You felt the person is showing you disrespect. It's a situation where you're playing, you know, maybe the worst you've played that you can remember. And you just, as you see sometimes a professional player that's very unusual, they just go over and smash a rocket and they kind of check out.”

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  2. “Head, and that will be with you, and that'll be the only coaching voice you'll have until your death. And it's the only one that no one else can hear.”

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  3. “I'd write it down. And we found in our work, and this is how I like to learn, I love huge data sets. I love just data trends. And what we found was that people are much better writing it down using cursive writing because there's something about moving the fingers of your hand that is better than moving the inputs that are going on from striking a keyboard. And answer to your question, for me the most direct way is first awareness, then decide how you want to speak to yourself, then hold yourself. And then start doing your writing and try to bring that forth. And it's not just and maybe more importantly in sport, but it is in all of life. And once you get that voice right, you know, your happiness, your feeling of satisfaction, you've got a great coach in your head.”

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  4. “To get smarter and smarter about the language that actually serves you best. Some really feel very adequate when they are not speaking a lot, when they're very quiet inside. Others come forth and they have kind of this monologue that they have, and it's always a very positive monologue. And when things go sour, they know exactly what gear to kick in. But this is what really was quite a shock to me, was that we learned that journaling was probably the best way scripting how you want to speak to yourself in advance and reading it and going over it again and rewriting it was the most direct way to get it reignited in your brain in the way you want. So journaling, writing is the most direct function to the executive function of the brain, to thought patterns. And that's why if I were to ask you, what's the one thing you would do if you wanted to remember something? You'd say probably.”

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  5. “I'm not that person yet, but believe me, whatever it takes, I'm going to spend the time and energy. I'm going to get there. And so we start scripting that. And I have people keep, you know, a journal of how they want to speak to themselves in situations that have given them trouble. They literally script it out. They write it out. So these are the situations that have given me trouble. If you double fall for the fifth time, three in a row. How do you want to speak to yourself? And you write that out and you write it and you read it and you write it and you read it. It becomes your, I love the one thousand. It becomes thirty five ninety nine. You begin to set a whole new neuropathway for energy to flow that actually is consistent with maybe the best coaching advice you could get. And so you begin.”

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  6. “And there's somebody inside you that is always scot free, that has a better judgment, never responsible for any of this, but just literally lays blame on everything that goes on in your life to your stupidity, your ignorance, your dumbhead. And so that is a form of energy expenditure, I call it, that really is not only wasted energy, but it is actually having an impact. The brain listens to everything you say. The brain hears everything you say. So if you say, I hate my forehand, I will never have a great forehand in tennis. You know, there's something that's being listened to around that, and it's very possible that that will become a huge barrier to you and take much longer for you to overcome some of the obstacles as opposed to I'm going to have one of the greatest forehands or I'm going to be one of the greatest putters.”

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  7. “And they begin to kind of lay it out very openly. And so the first step is awareness, awareness of, you know, just start in the morning. And every time something happens that isn't exactly the way you want it to go and maybe it's your fault, listen to what kind of coaching advice or what kind of talk that you're actually, are you scolding? Are you very derogatory? Are you positive in terms of, hey, let's get this going? Hey, we all make mistakes. Let's try to get better. How can I get better in this? And actually I asked people to start writing down in their journal periods of time that they can actually reflect on what that was. And it's often very shocking. And you can begin to see you're actually fighting a couple battles. You're fighting one with yourself if you're a competitor and then you're fighting the golf course or you're fighting your opponent on the other side. You have two battles you have to win.”

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  8. “First of all, it's very normal that everyone has a private voice. Everyone has an inner voice that's speaking to them some more than others. Sometimes that voice is extremely harsh, difficult, challenging. And you would say things to yourself you would never say to any other human being. And you would be so embarrassed if it was made public. And then if I were to ask you, where does that come from? You'd say, well, I said, you know, is there any of that in anyone in your life? And they often say, you know, it's a lot like my father. It's the way my father used to talk to me. That's the way my mother would talk to me. They don't really recognize its toxicity until you bring it to their attention”

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  9. “Would coach someone that they cared about because it's the best that you have to give. And that sometimes takes years to develop. But it's awareness and it is a very tough thing.”

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  10. “What would you say to them? And would you ever want the voice that's coming to you to be projected onto the jumbotron of some great big arena because you're proud of the messaging that that voice is giving you? It's great advice. It may be stern. It may be encouraging. It may be challenging. It may be a lot of things, but you're proud of it. It's the best coaching advice you could get from anyone. And that's why we want to be around great coaches because we begin to take on their wisdom. And that wisdom is imparted to our voice. So I'm always encouraging athletes to develop their voice, develop that private voice, and to make sure that whatever that voice is articulating to them, the advice, the languaging, and the tone is something that that's how they”

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  11. “And what we learned was that the more an individual can understand what that voice is saying to them, what the tone of that voice is, they can begin to look at this and see, wait a minute, is this really helpful or is it really? Am I carrying a lot of baggage here? And these are voices, these are not my voices, even though it seems to me my voice. I'm carrying the voices of a lot of other people. And if those voices are constructive, it's fantastic. That's the greatest thing a parent can do is to kind of help their sons and daughters develop magnificent voices of wisdom that are coaching them all the time with the right stuff. So kind of the rule of thumb that we use. Let's say you're a competitor. The way you speak to yourself is the way you would speak to someone you deeply cared about during that competitive event.”

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  12. “And it comes principally from the authority figures in your life, the people who had the most influence in your life at that time. We take on their voices however functional or dysfunctional because we, in a sense, want to be like them. We want to grow up and be strong or whatever it is, independent like they were. And so we get all these voices in our head. And some of them are, you know, if you had a rough father or if you had a mother who was, you know, harsh or doting or didn't want you to be involved in anything that you might get hurt, all those voices, it's not like they are not being somehow laid down in some way, particularly when the themes are consistent.”

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  13. “Is that private voice? And that private voice can be brutal, can actually be a detriment to being the best you can be. It could detriment to your happiness, to a sense of satisfaction in life. That voice, we don't even know where for sure it comes from, but we know it begins to form as early as five years of age.”

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  14. “Absolutely. I mean, you just, I believe, kind of uncovered what is one of the great nuggets and something that I did not understand even from the world of psychological science, sports psychology and performance psychology. It was not clearly articulated enough he could really understand it. But I began, I spent so many years listening to the voices, trying to get inside the heads of players, had them wear microphones and I could hear and they were to articulate everything that they said to themselves during a competitive event. And whether it be in golf or tennis or whatever. And as I began to realize what really mattered in a really significant way was the tone and the content, as you said, of the voice no one hears. I came to understand that the ultimate coach for all of us in life”

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  15. “He deserved to win. He deserved to finish that story the way it was finished. It's a wonderful teaching moment for anyone who gets into that story, had a profound effect on everyone who knew Dan. It had a profound effect on me just in the sense that Dan had done everything that we had asked him to do, and he did it with great engagement. He never held back. I felt he deserved it. That story is an indelible story, but I've had so many stories that are similar, but maybe not in exactly the same that have touched my life and have helped me learn and actually increase my understanding of this remarkable connection between mind and body.”

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  16. “Trying to show the joy on his face, how much love he had for the sport, and how grateful he was for the opportunity. And lo and behold, Dan Jansen not only made it extraordinary in terms of a performance, he won an Olympic gold medal. He broke an Olympic record in the same event that two years earlier he had come in 26 in the world. And there were seven people in that race, including Kevin Scott, who had faster times than he had ever had. And Kevin Scott was the world record holder at that time. I mean, you can imagine the celebration, the joy. Even get a little choked up when I talk about it because I was in tears before the 500. I was in tears completely throughout the whole race because Dan Jansen.”

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  17. “I could tell you men's stories about all that as well, but everyone felt badly for Dan because they knew he was the best speed skater. He'd broken all the records, but he didn't get an Olympic medal. We had four days. And the mindset that created, I think this extraordinary outcome was that Dan Jansen went into that race simply showing the whole world what a gift speed skating had been for him and all the wonderful joys. And he really wanted to show the joy that had been given to him through this sport and kind of a gratitude for all the sacrifices people had made to give him the opportunity to do this special thing that he loved so much. So he wasn't going out just trying to rock a world record or anything else. He went into that race simply.”

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  18. “And so Lily Hammer came and he had not a fall, but he had a minor slip on the 500. He did not win a medal. Of course, he was devastated, and I didn't tell Dan because I would normally not go to his events. I flew to Lillehammer and was in the audience, and I had to hide because I didn't want him to see me because I thought it might put a little extra pressure on him when he lost the 500. I wanted him to know I was there because we had four days to prepare for the final race of his life. And I had to fight through security and they tried to prevent me from even giving close to him. And I yelled out to Dan, Dan, it's Jim. And he looks over at me and he's, you know, he's very sad. And he looks at me and he says, oh my God, let him through. So I got in. We went down into the bowels of the arena there where he was on his exercise.”

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  19. “It is when you start realizing how much influence we have over the categories of our thinking and how we feel emotionally, all we have to do is tap in, make the inputs, and make them regularly, and the brain is so plastic, so flexible, so pliable, it will come around.”

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  20. “The thousand meter is more forgiving, and you can actually have a little hiccup here and there, and still win the entire thing. Dan resisted, but he said, I don't love the 1,000. I know you don't. I said, but we're going to recondition the way you think about it and the way you feel about it. And at one point, you're going to come back and tell me that you actually love the 1000. And that's exactly what happened. Before Lilyhammer, he actually broke the 36-second barrier three times, one at 35, 90, let's see, what was it, 3576 it was, which is absolutely mind-boggling to anyone who knew the sport at that time. And he came to me and he said, before Lilyhammer, he said, you know, I'm actually starting to like the thousand. I'm not sure I like the thousand better than the 500. And that just shows you how amazing.”

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  21. “Over again, and I can tell you you have such genius you could win an Olympic gold medal even in the thousand. And I want you to begin to change your mindset, the story you have around you, around the thousand. And I believe it can change your life. And I also knew that the 500 is unforgiving. If you make the slightest mistake in the 500, you're going to be out. You will not get an Olympic medal and probably end up somewhere deep in the pack.”

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  22. “Want you, and your training logs for the remainder of your time, I want you to write 359, and I want you to start believing that that will be possible for Dan Jansen before the end of your career. I said now I'm going to ask you to do something else because I know you're going to resist this one. I want you to write on the top of your training log, I love the 1000 because Dan Jansen did not love the 1000. He actually felt he was a fast muscle twitch kind of a guy. He was a sprinter. He hated the endurance event. He always got tired. He just did it for training purposes. And I said, Dan, I've watched you skate over and over.”

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  23. “And he said, This is my last Olympic event. I will not skate again. I'd like to have an Olympic victory of some kind, and And I would like, if possible, break the 36 second barrier, which was thought at that time to be the barrier. It's like the four minute mile for Roger Bannister. It's something that human beings will never be able to. And I said, okay”

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  24. “That I'm a stickler for training logs. I believe writing and really keeping track of all the critical variables from all the physical issues that are going on, diet, nutrition, exercise, recovery, stress. And then all the emotional issues that are going on and all the recovery and stress cycles in that and mentally and even spiritually how he's doing, how he is feeling about his life and about this sport of speed skating and where it fits in. And I have every single log that he made for we monitored 21 variables for two consecutive years. One of the things I had him put on, I asked Dan, what would you like to finish your career with? What would really be something that would be deeply satisfying? And he said, well, I'd love to just have some kind of an Olympic success. I mean, I've had none.”

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  25. “It was about two years before Albertville, which he would compete again, and the press was merciless. They kept asking him will you fall again? Have you gotten this death of your sister out of your mind? What's going to happen? So he went to Albertville, and again, he did not have a good race. And then it was after Albertville, two years later, was going to be, that was four years after Calgary. Two years later, he would be in Lilyhammer. You know, he didn't fall, but he slipped in Albertville, and he came in 26 in the race on the thousand meter. He just was not able to compete at all. And then we started working together. And I had him do lots of things. But as you said, one of the things was...”

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  26. “He put his skates on, mobilized himself over four days, and he was leading the entire race, and he had a pretty good margin of success, which would have been unbelievable, and he fell again to the ice and came in last. And thus began the real story of Dan.”

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  27. “And he tries to mobilize himself to win this race and to get through it somehow, but he's completely off center emotionally. And just a few feet into the start, Dan Jansen Falls. And Dan Jansen rarely falls. He just doesn't. And he felt a great sense of failure. Not only did he fail in the race, he failed her because he really wanted to do something special for her. Four days later was the 1,000 which he was supposed to not have any real hope for really succeeding. And he thought about not doing, but his father and his family said, please do this, do this. So he specifically dedicated this race to Jane.”

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  28. “I mean, you can't imagine what a blow this was to him. It was somebody that was so close to him. He would have left in a heartbeat and just left the Olympics and gone to be with her if he thought that was going to happen. But he had no knowledge, no one really knew. He really thought, well, what should I do here? He was going to not skate. And then his father said, what do you think Jane would want you to do? And he thought about it, and he said, I think she would want me to skate. Without much preparation at all, this was literally hours before the race. He puts his skates on, he is in tears.”

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  29. “Backstory is that Dan was one of the greatest speed skaters out of the blocks almost. He's got an extraordinarily wonderful family. He was just seemed like a natural for speed skating. And in his second Olympics at Calgary, he was slated to win an Olympic gold medal in the 500-meter. And one of the closest people in his life was his sister Jane. And she had leukemia, and he had no idea that she was in serious trouble. Just hours before his race, he got a call. Saying that his sister Jane had died”

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  30. “This is a really great friend after having gone through so much together. This is the story of Dan Jansen. I think one of the greatest stories in sports history because it's such a tribute to his dedication and the power of the human spirit. Dan's agent came and said, listen, would you please work with Dan Jansen? He will be an Olympic champion if we can get him to fully release his talent and skill. He's had a really terrible situation happen to him, and he's struggling. And he may go down as the greatest choker in sports history unless we can get him elevated to another plateau with the challenges that he faces. And would you mind taking Dan on? So I said, I know about Dan. I know about his story. I'd love to meet with them.”

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  31. “Work with Riley Olka, and he's seven. He's a tennis player, and he's almost seven feet. I don't know how he's seven feet, but he has size 15 feet. We have the same size feet, and I'm not. So I have a problem here.”

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  32. “Has learned as much from them. They might have learned from me because it's been an evolutionary journey for me. But I've been fortunate to work with over Hundred of the best tennis players in the world, including Jim Courier and Novak Djokovic and Had the opportunity to work with lots of different women on the women's tour, like Monica Salas and golfers, Marco Mera all the way up to players I'm still working with players on the tour. Worked with just about every sport, Eric Lindraus and Mike Richter in hockey. And Ray, boom, boom, Mancini in boxing with his title fight of Hector Macho Camacho We were involved so deeply, and I feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to be involved in their lives and to learn from them.”

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  33. “Thank you, Tim. I'm excited to be with you. That people can get some value out of our interaction. I love the time we can spend together.”

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