Travis Bradberry Quotes

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.

It’s very difficult to stay alert indefinitely.

When you have a limited theory of willpower, you're constantly on alert, constantly monitoring yourself. 'Am I tired? Am I hungry? Do I need a break? How am I feeling?' And at the first sign that something is flagging, you think, 'I need a rest or a boost.'

If - when someone asks me a question, if I could just focus on not joking, I think that would be great, because for some reason, I can't.

Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.

Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things.

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

Mentally, I am quite good at self discipline.

I don't focus well angry.

You know how some people get worked up about things? That's a very human thing to do. Sometimes, I don't know - like, I feel like I don't want to waste my energy doing stuff like that. I think about this on the court, too.

Even when I wasn't playing, I always had a smile on my face because if I acted sad or mad, it wouldn't help me.

The emotions can take you out of a game.

I want to show I can control my emotion and aggression and stay calm.

I wake up in the morning thinking about victory, I go to sleep thinking about victory, so sometimes it might be hard. But I need to control myself more and, how can I say it politely? Just shut up instead of speaking on the radio.

Twenty-five minutes is a long time to stay focused. It's really something I had to work on to go in there and not get complacent for 2 seconds or 5 seconds or 1 second. That's all it takes.

Even if sometimes I'm not happy with the way I'm playing the game before, during the changeover I have to stay calm. Otherwise the next game will be worse.

It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.

If you give somebody a lot of questions to answer and then they walk by a bowl of candy, they are more likely to grab the candy because they're tired out from answering questions and can't resist.

The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.

Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.

You need to be sharp the whole race, and eventually you start getting mentally tired and make little mistakes over and over.

Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.

I feel like, in a way, after doing it for so many years, you learn a certain concentration and how to turn it on and off.