A Simple Mind Trick to Help You Succeed |
In high-pressure situations, it's important to have the right mental framework to win.
Ilia Malinin mentally over-framed his Olympic gold quest in 2026 and lost.
When Ilia Malinin changed his mindset in the World Championships, he won gold.
Over the past several weeks, I’ve been writing about a psychological construct called “lowering the stakes” that I’ve uniquely applied to coaching people through high-pressure situations to ensure peak performance.
In early March, I applied this concept to U.S. Olympian figure skaters Ilia Malinin and Alysa Liu. During the Winter Olympics in February, Malinin set the mental stakes for himself sky-high by proclaiming himself the “QuadG0D” for his record-shattering quadruple axel, stating he had “broken physics.”
But the night before the finals, Ilia got a case of mental jitters and sleeplessness not just from the heat of the........