Brain Game: Performance Never Happens In The Future
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This video explains how pressure can trigger “mental time travel,” pulling golfers away from the shot and into imagined future outcomes. Rather than trying to think your way out of overthinking, structured routines and purposeful physical actions can return attention to the present—where performance actually happens.
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