Nothing Is Impossible by Tom Oliver

Author:Tom Oliver [Oliver, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2014-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

The Zone Takes Care of Quality Automatically, Without Our Intellect Getting in the Way

In the section “Flip It!,” I talk about how I was a serious stutterer as a child and how I cured it. Besides the fact that I had to learn to trust myself and my own energy, there was still another mental side to it. Stutterers are usually perfectionists. We set the bar too high and do not let communication flow. This perfectionism causes us to stutter.

The process can be equally applied to action and performance in any area. There is no single perfect way to do anything well. We have to trust that we will express ourselves or accomplish whatever we are setting out to do. Then we have to let ourselves go and ride our own energy while keeping our eyes firmly fixed on the outcome, the conceptualized mental image of our ideal; the flow of our impulses will then take care of the rest. Once you let yourself fall and get into the zone, your best work will happen with ease, and it will not feel like “work” at all.

This is key. You have to trust your own energy and let yourself go.

Get your damned head out of the way! This is a challenge for intellectually gifted people. I see this again and again, both in my students at business school and in real life with people with high potential in any area, from the creative arts to business. A high IQ means that you tend to use your intellect as a stop sign. In fact, we have been taught to use our intellect as a stop sign, to overanalyze and not trust ourselves. We want to be perfect. There are literally a million roads you can take to accomplish, do, or say anything and achieve great results. Perfectionism assumes that there is only one single best way to do something. We wrack our brains to find that one best way and to live up to that standard. This mindset is often the fastest road to misery and mediocrity, as we are cutting ourselves off from our own energy source and fall short of ever reaching our full potential, what we’re truly capable of.

It’s important to realize that this behavior is simply a culturally acquired habit, not something innate. You can get rid of it easily. In fact, all great entrepreneurs, businesspeople, CEOs, artists, athletes, and peak performers in any area have done so. They know that all they have to do is to get into the zone, and it will take care of quality automatically. Remember that the next time you’re under pressure to perform well. Your intellect is a tool. The zone is the master.

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