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How many elite performers do you think have got the talent to be able to become world class, but don't actually have the inside game to actualize that potential?
I think it's a much larger percent than we realize. And I've seen it. I've seen it at the junior, the high school, the college level. Athletes who were insanely talented, better than those who became Olympic medalists, But they just kept getting in their own way. They weren't able to express that talent.
And I would bet you that any coach or somebody who spent enough time in this field has dozens of stories just like I do.
Yeah. Do you know who Lewis Capaldi is? British singer? No. Okay. I mean, you'll have heard his tracks. He's done billions and billions of streams. And he's having a tough time mentally at the moment. He found a lot of pressure in between his first and his second album, as it's known, the difficult second album. And
had this pressure to perform, wasn't really too sure whether he could live up to his own expectations and what was needed by the label and what was wanted by his management and so on and so forth. And he had Tourette's and he developed kind of a Tourette's tick, which was his shoulder, which is very common. And a lot of anxiety came along with it. And a couple of times now, on very big stages.
I think he did this at Glastonbury last summer. He's certainly done it in a couple of his own live shows. He's choked on stage doing his own songs. And the anxiety has gotten so bad that he hasn't been able to get the words out to the songs that he's written, doing the very thing that he wanted. And I feel so bad for him because I adore his music. And
I think he's like a wonderful, kind, funny guy, at least in as much as you can tell from someone through the internet. But I always think about him as having this really unique blend of insane talent, gorgeous voice, wonderful songwriting ability, real insight into the human condition with what he sings about and how he puts it into words and lyrics and sounds.
And then this other side, which is his performance, his inner game and the challenges that he faces and the fact that his inner game is limiting his capacity. And I think for most people, we assume, well, people just aren't good enough. They're not good enough at the thing that they're trying to do.
And so many people have got the desire and the drive and they want and they try hard and so on and so on. But they're kind of just not that good. They're not world class.
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