In order to get maximum benefits from watching this video, ask yourself, how do I apply this knowledge to my own life?

First step to becoming an elite athlete is loving the sport. You need motivation and hardwork. These simple steps will lead you to becoming one of the greatest.

4 Tenets (meaning: a principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy.) : 7:52 1) Working on your fundamentals and strengths: You have to make it personal, and you have to base it upon the principles of fundamentals 8:41 2) Repitition, Repitition, Repitition. 8:50 3) Stretch your abilities: Get out of your comfort zone. 9:20 4) You need feedback.

Playing football in hs I was terrible as a freshman and sophomore. I began to train and actually watch highlights of some smaller quicker players in college and the nfl. Studying their moves I would zone in so much that I would be moving my body without even noticing. My junior year I advanced so much I got most improved and it wasn’t due to a growth spurt or anything genetic. Visualization helped me greatly and I didn’t even notice it.

Love how honestly and earnestly he delivers his stories. You’ll notice little hiccups that make him even more genuine. Loved the message and the delivery. Great job.

A warm and friendly man delivering beautiful and stirring stories to illustrate a profound truth!

The golf story was great. I found myself playing air tennis during the pandemic [I've never played better] and found that when I stepped on the court over the summer my movements/ strokes were on point. Wild stuff.

Really like this message of vision Thank you

Best product placement ever.

Thanks a lot Sir. You really inspired me.....

The perfect video on elite athletes thank u so much just perfect

Good for motivation...and learning about the concept of Deliberate Practice.

Thank you sir. well done

Greatest comment was about tracking into the future and come backing and then just producing the shot.

Beautiful. Absolutely True.

Very good.

That was beautiful thank you

Probably one the best TED talks ever! Big lessons to be learned here!

Thank you sir!

I would like to bring some clarity to some of the discussions and reference the study quoted "Innate gifts do not determine success" The study is just not about athletics, we all have natural gifts like singing, acting, writing, being a carpenter or being a surgeon. What the message is elite athletes are able to do something we can all learn from that is "deliberate practice" and the 3 principles that force themselves out of their comfort zones. - not just hard work. I think you all can think of elite athletes not blessed with overwhelming gifts or genetics but are elite and compete at the highest levels. Can we all not learn from them and develop our own natural gifts.

Thank you.

incredible.

this video deserves more views

He's not lying I do that...i do the visualization in Basketball...i be thinking where the spot I'd like to get to then imagine what Moves I'll use to get by you...especially 1v1...i used to play every single day in elementary espically from 4th to 6th grade

He should visualize that cold away.

Great talk

Very true! It works

This ted talk 👏

Excellent

yes! that is some fundamental and universal concept of nature.

Great statement!

Very interesting

Overall gd points made and helpful

Great.

Thank you for this!!! I'm going to Run My Race Sung My Song & Tell My Story!!

Visualization and deliberate practise !

Awesome story about the golfer

Great lesions 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 thank you👍👍👍👍

Great stuff here!

Thank you. ;)

Visualization could be effective to improve our performance regardless of fields. I will give it a shot because we never know unless we try. In addition, deliberate practice requires a clear goal, concentration, feedback and getting out of confort zone. I try to practice something in my discomfort zone.

"he is moving like a tremendous machine" - announcer calling Secretariat in the Belmont

Based on the times Sham was the second fastest horse of the century. Any other year a triple crown winner. Both horses had hearts twice the size of a normal thoroughbred, around 20 lbs.

Certainly genetics matter, but I see a lot of guys with good genetics playing pickup at the Y. Elite athletes make it further because of the the characteristics he describes.

Aloha, amazing film! Have a nice evening :D

was reading up on Secretariat - It's got an account that the horse was noted for being exceptionally well-balanced, a big, powerful horse described as having "nearly perfect" conformation and stride biomechanics. So it's not completely training and visualisation... he horse was a freak also..

I use this for 3pt shooting in basketball.

Wow he’s right.

Practice doesn't make perfect. It makes habitual. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Talent is the product of hard work

ye cody miller talks about his visualization

I think it's true what this man says. But I think the very first thing you need, before even doing any sport or starting in any activity, is believing you can!! Because if you believe you can improve and be successful, then you will be willing to do the hard work, and will do it... And you will also do it easier.... Whereas if you believe there's no chance, then you will fell more lazy, less motivated and will practice less.... And then you wi have bad results. Thiese kind of talks have the amazing effect of reminding us that we can and that there are ways to achieve success!!?

I know some people won’t see this comment but it’s ok, I am a 15 year old boy from New Jersey and I played football from the age of 9-12, football has always been my favorite sport and it helped me get my mind off of the bad things that was going on in my life, from age 2-12 I lived with my dads babymother not even my own mom and my dad would only come around once a week or once every two weeks, I had to share a room with my two half brothers one is 20+ years older than me and one is 2 years older than me, whenever we would argue my brother would say go live with your mom but I couldn’t because my dad had custody of me but I never lived with him I was only allowed to see my mom every two weeks, when I turned 12 I got to live with my mom and I’m still living with her but while living with her bad things have also happened in my life, like getting kicked out with my mom from my stepmoms house and other things, also when my mom got custody of me I had to stop playing football because my stepmom said it was too expensive now for the past 3 years I’ve been out of shape and I always get talked down on and I just feel unmotivated and I feel like I have no support and no stability in life, Also I started smoking weed, at first I thought I wouldn’t get addicted and I thought I would be able to control it, but i wasn’t. I’ve been smoking for the past 8-9 months and I don’t wanna keep smoking but it’s an addiction now, I can’t go a day without smoking, if I don’t smoke I will be aggravated all day. Weed had caused eating problems for me also I can’t eat without smoking first. And I have a problem with staying consistent I try to get in shape but I’m so inconsistent I will work out one day of the week and then the other 6 I just lay down or play video games because of quarantine. Also I’m 5’9 and I only weigh 118.1lbs and it’s sad. I want to get back to my old self and get back in shape because I want to play football again and go off to college and play my dream has always been to make it to the NFL. I feel so bad about my self and I’m insecure and I wish I wasn’t and I wish I had better self confidence. I just feel like a FAILURE and I know I shouldn’t say that about my self but it’s just how I feel 😓. I’m tired of crying and thinking about my past, and my insecurities, and other bad things in my life I just want to do good in school and play football and move on and be happy...

So what if you have aphantasia and cant see anything when you try to visualize?

Wow..Best ted talk ever😘👍👍I'm a tt player (table tennis)...I'm gonna try my best

This is a fascinating study. A book I read with comparable content had a major impact on me. "The Hidden Empire: Inside the Private Worlds of Elite CEOs" by Adam Skylight

the music at the end pleas ??????

Would love to do a TED talk about putting together my portfolio

Tom Hanks

thanking as a sportmen

To be a elite you need a balance with genetics (mentaliy and body) and environment (way of life, diet, relationships, experiences), and to complicate more, genetics determines the actions that will influence the athlete's environment. In the end it's all related.

How to use visualization if you are a lng distance runner?

Reminded me of the Sherlock Holmes movies!

I figured he'd say "an addiction to winning".

John Wooden also said after winning his 8 th national championship, " asked me in 20 years if we had a successful season. If these young men are God fearing men the answer will be YES"

What about if you have aphantasia?

that intro joke got a solid awkward pause

Conclusion : visualization

The only problem with Secretariat was finding headphones big enough for the biofeedback sessions.

I've heared so many thoughts of myself that I started wondering: Am I am athlete?

Those that can't do, teach...

He was a bit clumsy with some things he said but his main message is basically correct. Olympic gymnastics coach been saying these things for years. It blows the mind to learn how difficult any gymnastics training is, let alone be capable of elite level. They’ve been advocating visualisation as an important was of training for yrs & also, it’s not “practice makes perfect” but “perfect practice makes perfect”.

put ball in goal?

This starts out like a bad Tom Hanks movie!

use visualisation+delbret practice use fundamentalssmth that is important to do to make it repetition challenge your self get out of your comfort zone make it harder bcs if you do it ull master it receive positive feedback from your family and friends

I didn’t watch the video but it’s good genes. Thank me later for saving you 16 minutes

His lack of fitness is the cause of the breathing issue. Ironic for a sports talk.

2 basketballs can _almost_ fit inside of a basketball hoop at the same time, assuming that the balls go in at the same time and end to end. Basketballs are about 9.5" in diameters and hoops are 18" in diameter.

Hi how are you

You need two things to be an elite athlete in your sport: 1.) Natural born talent. 2.) Motivation/drive. There are plenty of examples of natural born talent that did not have the drive/motivation to reach the elite levels. There are also plenty of examples of athletes with motivation/drive that overachieved but did not reach elite level.

Watch the 👶 song

2 basketballs cannot go in at once

What about physical attributes.. they are defining factor for pro athletes

If no talent requires think about messi..most people say gifted can anyone explain what it is??..he is also human being..what makes him difference?he is also just like us

Mr. Spaulding is feeling left out.

Donr forget Genetics is a necessary for having an advantage

It always comes back to law of attraction.

Elite athletes wished he hadn't told us their secrets

We cant all be top athletes

Genetics, chemicals, hard work and luck.

Legend Jimmy the Greek secrete was the genetic make up of the athlete is what made him the superior athlete.

Someone give the man a glass of water, or beer

kobe used to practice without a ball, shaq said

I'm sure this was a very interesting speech but I couldn't watch it all as that sniff was just too annoying.

God I wish snot rocketing was more publicly acceptable because damn what he’s saying is actually pretty good but rip to that last name

Okay but theres no way that POW man was playin golf his first couple days in that cell man smh

I love how he said Elite athletes are actually like you and me, completely ignoring genetics..lol

Two basketballs can go through the hoop at the same time? I exercise a challenge on that one baby. Seeing is believing.

Put the damn basketball down fella

It is hard to believe he played basketball