As I found out, performance can be used as a tool for different reasons. Not everyone is in the same game for the same reason. Most likely they are there for different ones. It took me a very long time to figure that out. Someone can be in a race, to numb their feelings, to feel their feelings, to feel belonged to a group, to satisfy someone else or because it’s scarier to do something else.
My goal, my dream, my reason, my performance. Is winning. To end up on the highest step of the podium. To find a better combination than my competitors, I like to puzzle.
I don’t care about how it looks, I just wanna know if it is faster. I want to test, to be honest. If we change this, does it get better? People wanna improve but they do not want to measure if they are actually right. They are ashamed if they lose. I see losing as fuel. You do the accountancy of it. You add and subtract. Till there is more energy in your tank.
The magic of a race-decisive-moment, where you are the one making it. Because your tank is fuller than the others. That’s the ultimate play.
What are the right cues to improve? I think it works like a navigation system. It can give you a cue, go right in 200 meters. But it will only work if it knows where you are. And if you know where you want to go. We all dream, we all wanna win double gold at olympics, that’s not so difficult. It gets difficult when you have to accept where you are. That is the sport of performance. Somehow I like this honest painful clarification of my location. Because after it, I know I’m going forward. This location determination is the key to perform. The mindset, and trust in yourself to accept where you are, that is the mindset.
Oggi, ad esempio, la stampa 3D e la manifattura additiva stanno rivoluzionando il modo in cui progettiamo e realizziamo “cose”, permettendo una personalizzazione senza precedenti. Anche una tazzina da caffè può avere una identità singolare ed esistere solo in funzione di chi la utilizzerà.
It’s a mindset you have to protect. The biggest enemy of performance is fear, social fear. People disagree about what you do, afraid to get a different opinion. But do they judge you? or are they afraid to feel where they are themselves? Are they afraid to feel different? It confuses me to see people race to be the outstanding one, but only within the social rules. I get energised to see the total overview. I don’t care about any social rules. I just want to get more energy in my tank. no matter what. I take my tank, and look. look everywhere. Ask every question. What can be better? How do we go faster? What did you do? Did it get better by using this strategy? What did you test? What do the numbers say? Which parts of the puzzle did you investigate? I don’t care which department I have to look at, whether it is in food, mental, social, temperature or engineering or something else. I like to ask, to learn, to explore, to grow, to get faster, to puzzle better, to decide racing, to enjoy winning.
Ask where am I? Ask where do I want to go? Be proud to ask Be proud to not know to puzzle more energy in your tank to decide racing to enjoy Winning to perform.
