In her second BBC Sport column on the Australian Open, Wimbledon semi-finalist and WTA star Elina Svitolina discusses how watching YouTube movies of neuroscientist Andrew Huberman have helped encourage her profitable comeback.
Psychology is a subject which I’m actually fascinated with – I learn plenty of books about it and watch plenty of YouTube movies.
I actually love to observe movies from a man known as Andrew Huberman, who’s an American neuroscientist at Stanford College and host of a podcast.
It is nice how he explains from a science perspective how the thoughts works and what we undergo as people.
In addition to discovering out about his analysis, I additionally like to observe different motivational movies and TED talks.
The thoughts is an enormous, huge half in tennis. Now and again I work with a psychologist to assist take care of some conditions the place I can not discover a means myself.
However simply because somebody tells you to strive one thing it does not imply it is going to work 100% – you need to discover one of the best ways which works for you.
I all the time hearken to the folks round me after which make my very own choice.
That is what works for me.
Everyone seems to be completely different however it’s good to find out about alternative ways so I can tailor them to assist me. I attempt to discover out what works for me in any specific time.
The mind is a muscle you prepare and I all the time attempt to discover new methods of optimising it.