A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to attend a weekend conference with Dr Joe Dispenza at Omega in upstate New York. Dr Dispenza is mostly known for his excellent appearance in the movie What the bleep do we know and tours across the world helping people understand how the brain works with quantum physics and how to change your life with this understanding through meditation.
“Neurons that no longer fire together no longer wire together” (Dr Joe Dispenza)
Unfortunately, when a player reacts to a perceived negative outcome, these neurons are strengthened to further wire the same reaction in a similar future circumstance. This is why you see the same competitors react the same way week in week out. Roger Federer generally does not react to errors because his brain is not wired that way through repetition of not reacting. Roger wasn’t always this way. As a junior he used to react to errors, however, he has changed his philosophy because he had the courage to stop the reactionary strengthened pathways.
