You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
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Any professional athlete will tell you that the mind is everything. For me, there is no shame in saying that I visualize and I meditate, because it really works.
The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.
The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
So much of performing is a mind game.
For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.
When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.
If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.
The mind is pretty powerful. In skating, you learn to click into that zone and focus not necessarily on what you're doing but if you're doing it well.
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.