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If you knew how you could optimise your mind to do whatever you will it to to get exactly what you want would you? Am still in the midst of listening to The Diary of a CEO Episode 215: The Mindset Doctor: The Secret Man Behind the World's Top Performers . In it, Prof. Steve Peters talked about our 3 modes of thinking. The Human, the Chimp and the Computer system. The Human system is logical and very slow. When you operate in this system, your body and reflexes slow down because you're analysing as you go along. That's good in some circumstances but not in fast moving sports. The Chimp system is a primitive system although it thinks. It's more than just a reaction and impulsive system but it thinks emotionally. It'll think thoughts which are not helpful such as "Should I go faster at this point? Or should I slow down and conserve my energy?" And then it could make a decision to go faster and then burn out. Particularly in fast sports, we'd want to ta...