Lucidity In Sports Get Clarity of Mind When Under Pressure

Section 1 What does losing lucidity look like?

1. Being too self-conscious: The Spotlight Effect
2. Nerve-wracking stage fright
3. Forgetting information in the moment
4. Losing the capability to think clearly
5. Showing hesitation
6. Becoming paralyzed by overanalysis
7. Entering the panic state
8. Choking under pressure
9. Experiencing tunnel vision
10. Impact on psychomotor skills

1. The impact of pressure on lucidity
2. The intense desire to attain something
3. Being Impatient
4. Making a mistake
5. Emotions that arise from losing
6. Injuries and sickness
7. Loss of lucidity associated with an unbalanced diet
8. Effect of dehydration on brain functions
9. Brain freeze: effect of cold temperatures
10. Physical fatigue and exhaustion

1. Intention is the key that turns mindset into action
2. With intention comes motivation
3. Levels of consciousness
4. Lucidity through action of the reticular activating system
5. Lactic acid, fatigue, and the mind/body connection
6. Awareness
7. Proprioception and Sense of movement
8. Give meaning to elements with perception

1. The limited attention
2. Flexible and orientable attention
3. Attentional focus
4. Concentration is a mental skill of performance
5. Clarity/perspicuity
6. How do we appraise a situation?
7. Cognitive distortion and sense of reality
8. Strategic reasoning
9. Decision-making and decisiveness

1. Building confidence
2. Developing emotional stability
3. Slow down the pace: "hurry slowly"
4. The power of intermittent recovery
5. Practicing relaxation
6. Stepping back
7. Dissociation and reaching a state of detachment through hypnosis
8. Learning how to anticipate
9. Developing your intuition

Stephanie Cunha is a biochemist and entrepreneur in the mental strength training industry. She obtained her PhD in Biochemistry at the prestigious University of Lyon 1 in France. Passionate by the function of the body's molecules on the brain and emotions, she developed practical tools for athletes to optimize their mindset, which will become later on the Adaptive Mindset System.

Lisa Lucchesi is a leader at Nike in product testing. Prior to her work at Nike, she was a developer for 15 years in the medical device industry, taking products from concept, scale-up, all the way through commercialization. She developed wound dressings for severe bleeding for the military that received the second-fastest FDA approval. Her expertise is in developing strategies for iterative improvements in sports and life.