This is really an awesome talk by Ivan Joseph, Athletic Director and varsity soccer coach at Ryerson University. He's full of spirit, humor and wisdom around building self-confidence. The fact that he views it as a skill, as opposed to attitude or belief, makes it something that we can all acquire and develop.
Joseph doesn't talk about T'ai Chi, but how does T'ai Chi play into what he talks about?
- Repetition, repetition, repetition. T'ai Chi is not school, which has a beginning and then you graduate. It goes on. In this respect, study and practice, when done daily in small, manageable sessions over years, allow you to feel confidence that you can learn it, grasp it, and perform it.
- Patience and persistence. The slow movements of T'ai Chi require us to take things in a more relaxed, reflective fashion. It teaches us not to hurry, and simply to keep going. It is a genuinely pleasant exercise, so it can be fairly easy to keep doing and thus persist in.
- Positive reframe. In T'ai Chi, we are gentle, we are kind, and we are encouraging. We look at people and things in a positive vein. Joseph takes a humorous turn, when he chooses to interpret rejections from a lady he's courting (who would eventually become his wife) as positive feedback.
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