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Feeling Creative? Tension is the Enemy.
5 Steps To Getting What You Want And Reaching Your Full Potential With Theta Thoughts
People who knew John Wooden simply called him “Coach.” But the world knows him as the greatest NCAA Coach of all times. I consider him a great motivator. Here is his perspective on tension:
“Be Quick but don’t hurry”
I know how to rush around and get “nowhere fast.” I’m a super typist, tested at 100 wpm, but when the words come tumbling out with great eagerness, my computer freezes. Then my brain freezes because I’m worried I’ll forget what I was going to say.
Coach Wooden asks the question:
If you do not have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
Today, Neuroscientists might refer to Wooden’s giant success as his innate sense of how to access theta brainwaves.
You don’t want to mess with those good brainwaves. Your relaxed, confident approach is your creative center and it comes from your theta brainwaves.
Dr. Greg Wells, top Performance Physiologist and Neuroscientist says our brains are not meant to be constantly on ‘go.’ We have to slow down in order to be creative and we can’t be tense.
