RECIPE FOR A SCREWUP
Lolo Jones was winning the women's 100-meter hurdles race, on her way to a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In the lead, she was clearing the hurdles with an effortless .rhythm-until something went wrong.
At first it was very subtle: she had a sense that the hurdles were coming at her too fast. With that, Jones had the thought Make sure you don't get sloppy in your technique. ... Make sure your legs are snap ping out.
With those thoughts, she overtried, tightening up a bit too much-and hit the ninth hurdle of ten. Jones finished seventh, not first, and collapsed on the track in tears.
Looking back as she was about to try again at the 2012 London Olympics (where she eventually finished fourth in the 100-meter race), Jones could recall that earlier moment of defeat with crys tal clarity. And if you asked neuroscientists, they could diagnose the error with equal certainty: when she began to think about the details of her technique, instead of just leaving the job to the mo tor circuits that had practiced these moves to mastery, Jones had shifted from relying on her bottom-up system to interference from the top.
Brain studies find that having a champion athlete start pon- derin'g technique during a performance offers a sure recipe for a screwup. When top soccer players raced a ball around and through a line of traffic coneli-and ltad to notice which side of their foot was controlling the ball-they made more errors. 6 The same hap pened when baseball players tried to track whether their bat was moving up or down during a swing for a pitched ball.
RECIPE FOR A SCREWUP
Lolo Jones was winning the women's 100-meter hurdles race, on her way to a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In the lead, she was clearing the hurdles with an effortless .rhythm-until something went wrong.
At first it was very subtle: she had a sense that the hurdles were coming at her too fast. With that, Jones had the thought Make sure you don't get sloppy in your technique. ... Make sure your legs are snap ping out.
With those thoughts, she overtried, tightening up a bit too much-and hit the ninth hurdle of ten. Jones finished seventh, not first, and collapsed on the track in tears.
Looking back as she was about to try again at the 2012 London Olympics (where she eventually finished fourth in the 100-meter race), Jones could recall that earlier moment of defeat with crys tal clarity. And if you asked neuroscientists, they could diagnose the error with equal certainty: when she began to think about the details of her technique, instead of just leaving the job to the mo tor circuits that had practiced these moves to mastery, Jones had shifted from relying on her bottom-up system to interference from the top.
Brain studies find that having a champion athlete start pon- derin'g technique during a performance offers a sure recipe for a screwup. When top soccer players raced a ball around and through a line of traffic coneli-and ltad to notice which side of their foot was controlling the ball-they made more errors. 6 The same hap pened when baseball players tried to track whether their bat was moving up or down during a swing for a pitched ball.
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