>> And the other thing that's
a natural offshoot from that conversation is failure.
>> Yeah.
>> It's, the best designed presentation I ever went to was
one of the nation's best designers showing his 100 worst designs.
And they were horrible.
And that an important lesson to learn,
that along the way to doing good work you can do some really horrible work.
>> And you have to give yourself permission to to, let's say, I
went back and looked at a video of myself giving a presentation five years ago.
I'd be horrified by that.
Right?
But if I, my ten-year-ago self would look ahead at that and
go wow I've really improved.
And there's this constant process of improvement.
And allowing yourself, just know that you're on a journey.
And then it's okay to always have something that you're trying to
make better.
>> Yeah, time and distance.
>> Yeah. [LAUGH]
>> Those are good things to
have when we have that luxury in looking at our work.
>> Yeah, one of the things in my first best practice is fear inhibits execution.
We need to replace fear with a rule-governed formula
that allows us to execute on multiple levels.
But you're right, that if you overthink,
you cannot execute on multiple levels and if you critique yourself
based on imagining yourself outside of the situation looking in, you cannot.
You have to be in that moment to overcome fear.
You have to be in that moment, you have to memorize your song, but
you also have to be willing to improvise.
>> Yeah, that's true.
>> You have to be willing to roll with the moment.
You can't just play it in a wooden recitation
>> That's very, very true.
That's very true.
>> Right, I agree with that, but I also think this idea of managing fear,
you have to accept your fear and acknowledge it.
I mean every time I walk into a classroom on the first day, I've been teaching for
years and years, you have that adrenalized fear that it's going to go wrong somehow.
Or every time I walk out on a karate mat or every time I give a presentation, you
feel that adrenaline and that fear, but you can use it to fuel your performance.
To make it better.
>> It's a full time resident of trick situations.
>> [LAUGH] That's a really good- >> But you can walk into a room and
go there's fear, I know it, and then continue.
>> Hello old friend.
>> Well in a way, I think that the fear is related to adrenaline.
But in a way, it's a misrecognition.
When your body lights up with that adrenaline,
you can recognize it as fear and debilitating, or
you can recognize it as the powering engine for you to execute a formula.
Whether it's a song, whether it's a sequence of techniques,
or whether it's your presentation itself.
To execute, If you walk in and
recognize that feeling as fear, you're fighting an uphill fight.
>> Mm-hm.
>> If you walk in it and
recognize it as fuel, >> Yes.
>> Then you're forward.
>> Yeah, I love it.
>> That's very good.