Have a "trusting mindset "—trust your skills 培養自信心——相信自己的能力
Main idea 要點

High performers don't question their basic ability to do what's required. Instead, they concentrate on the task at hand completely because they don't even have to think about the mechanics of what they're attempting to do well. This is the essence of the "trusting mindset".

優秀的人不懷疑自己的能力,只是全身心地做手頭的工作,他們甚至不考慮如何才能做好.這是自信心的本質。
Supporting Ideas 要點闡釋

A trusting mindset is the cumulative result of many result of many years of education , training and experience. All of that background is ingrained into your instincts so that when it comes time to perform, you do the right thing without having to deliberately and consciously think about it .

自信心是經過多年培育、訓練和經驗累積的結果。這些基礎會徹底融入你的直覺里。所以，時機一到，“該是出手時就出手”——你準能把事干好。

At times, humans complicate things too much. Instead of simply doing the task at hand as well as possible ,we sometimes start thinking about the many background issues and flow-on results further down the road .We get to busy thinking about all the peripheral issues that we ignore the need to execute the task at hand as well as possible ,and end up choking because we worry too much.

我們常會把簡單的事情復雜化，其實只需盡力把眼前的事做好就行了。但我們往往多慮了無數的瑣事和后果，一天到晚忙著“假設”，以至忽略了“實施”，終落得“憔悴損”、“一場空”……

In some ways the trusting mindset is what a person is in before they know any better. It's the opposite of the training mindset where people stop and evaluate deliberately what they're doing. The trusting mindset means to use all the expertise which you have instinctively rather than deliberately.

就某些方面而言，自信心往往不是“油然而生”的。與刻意停下來思考行動方案、始終停留在反復推敲的心態相比，所謂自信心就是，你可以不假思索、憑自覺“隨意”施展自己的專長。

High performers don't get too bogged down in detail. Instead, they divide their time intelligently between working on their game and actually playing it. A good analogy for performing in the trusting mindset is to think about how squirrels run across a wire or try to find food .Squirrels don 't sit there and think about what is the best thing to do. Instead , they react instinctively to the stimuli that comes through their senses. Overachievers do something similar in that they concentrate exclusively on performing well when it's time to get out and perform.

卓越者不沉溺于細節，他們會聰明地把時間分配給策劃和實施兩種行為，并行不悖。有自信心的工作者就好比四處找食的松鼠，它們不會停下來想最好的做法，而是直接對感官刺激做出反應。辦公室超人也一樣，一有表現的機會，他們便專心致志地創造出優異的表現。

Key Thoughts 核心思想

"How do great performers in every field switch on their trusting mode at will? Some do it intuitively, and that is why we call them 'natural talents' Others, however , have learned to trust their abilities and their experience by gradually spending more and more time at work in the Trusting Mindset .You can learn it ,too, but you have to be willing to be uncomfortable at first .If you're skilled at using your Training Mindset ,just letting yourself trust will feel quite foreign. Often when I describe the Trusting Mindset to my clients, they immediately ask ,'What do I have to do to make it happen?' I tell them to do nothing - and then repeat it again and again. They look at me as if I'm crazy. But that's exactly how the best perform; they practice thinking of nothing when the pressure is on. Success depends on emptying your head rather than filling it .You can do that too - if you're willing to retrain your mind. It will take some work. To join the ranks of overachievers will require you to make some perhaps uncomfortable and often misunderstood choices about how you think when you're performing."
—John Eliot

“各個領域的優秀人物為什么能隨意激活他們的自信心呢？”有些人完全是憑自覺的，我們稱他們為‘天生的’。但其他人則是靠積累，逐步增加信心，學會相信自己的……你也可以通過學習建立自信心。但必須“扛得住”剛開始時的不適應。如果你靠自我鍛煉去尋求信心，恐怕那個信心會讓你感到陌生。當我向客戶描述自信心以后，他們一般立刻會追問：‘我怎樣才能有呢？’當我告訴他們什么都不必做——然后再重申一次時，他們都以為我瘋了。然而那就是出類拔萃的人的做法：一旦壓力來了，他們就什么都不想。要想成功就必須放下思想包袱，而不是由各種噪聲裝滿它。只要有意，你也可以做到。這需要一點兒努力。要成為辦公室超人，有時必須要選擇一些令人不舒服甚至遭人誤解的思考方式。”
——艾略特