When success doesn’t come easy, we get disappointed and get tired faster. Other people’s success distorts our expectations. We optimize for fundraising events or quick hacks instead of focusing on what matters the most - the customer, the product, or whatever may be.
#Boxing knockout punches plus
Survivorship bias plus the fact that we often underestimate the hard work required to achieve something undermines our success.Īs entrepreneurs, we’re often victims of this mentality. We tend to forget the many who fail, remembering the few who succeed. Sometimes, people just get lucky - while most of the nameless people who did the same things ended up failing. We see someone else’s massive success, we feel the urge to go for that.Ĭonor McGregor’s 13-Second KO of Jose Aldo at UFC 194īut emulating them won’t necessarily replicate their outcomes. Survivorship bias doesn’t help us, either. We focus on the end result, not the process and the hard work required. We want to be successful entrepreneurs in no time.We want to get in shape by going to the gym 2 months before summer.We want to lose those 10 kilos in a month.Too often in our lives, we go for the knockout punch. It’s probably even easier to forget it in life. It’s easy to forget this when you’re learning a sport. And the knockout punch was made possible in the gym many months before the fight. It’s one of the thousands they’ve been practising with other sparring partners and in the gym. They’re on autopilot.įor them, the knockout punch is just another punch. They let their muscle memory take over when they step into the ring. They’ve developed automations through years of hard training. The best boxers are loose in the ring they’re focused on their game plan, being present, on throwing their combos. It comes from inputs like having a great coach, identifying/forming your own fighting style, eating well, improving your boxing technique, working on your mental grit, etc. The knockout punch is made possible by great training and consistent practice. (This is why I’ve started thinking of expectation management as the stamina of grit). Reality doesn’t meet your expectations, and when you’re mentally unprepared, it breaks you.
In the meantime, you’re getting hit in the face. Every time you think you’re about to land that knockout punch, but you don’t land it, you get disappointed. Going for that knockout over and over makes it easy for your opponent to set up a counter-attack. You use more energy and get tired faster.You stop being able to see punches that come from unorthodox angles.
Being stressed, you don’t stick to your game plan, and you also lose your peripheral vision. To unlock this energy, we need to be loose and explosive, not stiff.
Powerful punches are generated by a whipping motion using the elasticity of the muscles and the kinetic energy of our body. At the same time, your punches are weaker. If you try too hard to win by throwing the one punch that wins the match, it creates all these problems: What happens when you go for the knockout punch I was trying too hard to win - and that was the reason I performed poorly. “Don’t go for the knockout,” my trainer said. One of the key learnings was that by being fixated on winning and on scoring that knockout punch, I had created a negative downward-spiralling loop that worked against me. Post-session, my trainer and I discussed my performance. Let’s just say my first sparring was not a huge success. At the same time, stiffness made me slow, un-creative and exhausted. The harder I squeezed my fists, the more I was swinging without landing anything. The harder I wanted my punches to be, the more stiff I became. But at the same time, I wanted to punch harder and see my technique in action. Nothing serious - but still I’m not really used to getting punched in the face. After some initial faints, we started trading blows. My heart rate had increased as soon as I stepped into the ring. It’s my first sparring session after taking boxing classes for two and a half years.
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