Chapter II Mental Virtues 40
CHAPTER 2.
Mental Virtues – Directing Action
“A weed is a plant whose virtues have not been discovered” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every performance might not be a peak-performance, but if you want to win, you need to have sufficiently winning elements encoded in your performance. With a poor attitude you might consider yourself a winner beforehand, taking success for granted, and lose the game or give poor performance because of the mistakes you make in your carelessness.
Mental virtues guide your attention, perception, thoughts and actions. The more and better you have trained these mental muscles the more they will serve you during the process and in the zone of peak performance, or when you want to perform winningly in occasions that do not require a peak-performance from you.
The idea of mental virtues is very close to that of mental models. Mental models are mental representations of things, relationships, actions, situations, processes. They are deeply ingrained assumptions that can also appear as images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action. It is very difficult to change the mental models or even to recognize them, but if you think of a possible situation you might get into, you might recognize some elements of your mental models.
Mental Virtues – Directing Action
“A weed is a plant whose virtues have not been discovered” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every performance might not be a peak-performance, but if you want to win, you need to have sufficiently winning elements encoded in your performance. With a poor attitude you might consider yourself a winner beforehand, taking success for granted, and lose the game or give poor performance because of the mistakes you make in your carelessness.
Mental virtues guide your attention, perception, thoughts and actions. The more and better you have trained these mental muscles the more they will serve you during the process and in the zone of peak performance, or when you want to perform winningly in occasions that do not require a peak-performance from you.
The idea of mental virtues is very close to that of mental models. Mental models are mental representations of things, relationships, actions, situations, processes. They are deeply ingrained assumptions that can also appear as images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action. It is very difficult to change the mental models or even to recognize them, but if you think of a possible situation you might get into, you might recognize some elements of your mental models.
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