Silence Your Inner Critic--Performance Equation

We all have this little "inner critic" that is trying to protect us from failure or harm. Ironically, in telling you what not to do what what you should do to avoid failure, this inner voice is keeping us from performing at our best.

Tim Gallwey,(Inner Game of Tennis, Inner Game of Work) sums up this phenomenon with an equation:

P=p-i

Gallwey's equation means Performance is equal to your potential minus the interference. He says that performance rarely equals potential because we create interference for ourselves that detracts from the potential. That interference shows up as those helpful, fear-based instructions intended to ward off failure or embarrassment.

--Taken from "The Next Level" by Scott Eblin