1 Way How You Can Overcome Unexpected Fear![Extended]

Time to pastor again. :)

Today I want to share with you How You Could Overcome Unexpected Fear in a short time.
Well, I have to clarify that I am not talking about fear in general, rather than when it's facing us in our profession.

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Last week in the last international game against Marseille we played the first time a new system. A formation we never played and trained before.

Also, we were already qualified for the next round that's why the result of the game wouldn't affect anything. But as Athletes, you always try to win. But not only as an athlete I think every one of us in our profession or personal life we want and try to succeed.

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But then how life is playing his game with us, unexpected moments happen. We are confronted with situations we never faced before. They are scaring us; our mind is having a lot of pictures showing us our bad ending. Our heart is going to beat faster and faster because we are not confident that we can overcome this fear or that we would deliver the results we want, we need, or our boss demands.

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On this day I was sitting on the bench. I thought that he would not put me inside this day because I played the game before. But it seems that our Coach was not happy with the manner we were playing. He sends me to warm up, and after five minutes he called me back. I was surprised.

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I thought: "Ok, maybe he wants more quality :D."
In my mind, I was already going through some movements on my position. Regular stuff! But then something unexpected happened.

The Coach asks me if I could play a totally different position.
Like a pistol, I asked: What? Serious?"

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My heart started to beat harder because I never played the position he planned to change me in before. After a long time in my life, I was feeling unsure; I didn't know how the movements on this position are, the space between the lines. The coach asked me again:" You think you can play this?"

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I had not much time to think deeply about If I can or not.
I needed a way to get to an answer I can trust on quickly.

And this is what I want to share with you.
The method I used is called....

For those who don't know what heuristic is:

It's a process where you get with minimal pieces of information to the right solution quickly. The outcome might not be perfect, but like I said before its a much easier way to get the right answer or solution.

The heuristic is wide preamble which is split into smaller specific areas.

What I used at that moment is called gaze heuristic

Wikipedia defines gaze heuristic that way:

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The gaze heuristic is a heuristic used in directing correct motion to achieve a goal using one main variable.[1] An example of the gaze heuristic is catching a ball. The gaze heuristic is one example of psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer's one good reason heuristic, where humans and animals are able to process large amounts of information quickly and react, regardless of whether the information is consciously processed.[2]

The gaze heuristic is a critical element in animal behavior, being used in predation heavily.[3] At the most basic level, the gaze heuristic ignores all casual relevant variables to make quick gut reactions.

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Here a picture for a better imagination.

( How can the Baseball player summon where the ball is falling. To make a complete math he has definitely not the time. But he doesn't need all these information. He keeps his sight constantly the same angle to the ball. Doing that he is able to catch the ball and this is the goal.)

In my situation, it was not exactly like the Wikipedias definition, because I? didn't need to catch a ball.
Let's go back to the answer I gave the coach and let me explain to you why I said YES, I can.

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Before my spiritual eye, I was seeing the player who played until now in this position. And I know the size of the pitch. I had scenes in my head, where the player was standing on the pitch in the most important situation. Means I had enough fresh information I could use. That's why I said yes nevertheless with a dull feeling in my stomach, but I knew it could work.

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This process happened not instantly. No, with every second I was scanning his movements in my head. For example, how was he standing when the ball was on the other side. I was even not in the game, and the process was running and running. And also during the game, this process was running inside of me. With more time I got a better feeling because I try to copy his movements on this position.

But this could not have been possible if I had not these kinds of information. In other words, if I had not followed? the game carefully it would be much much harder for me to deliver a solid performance.

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And with this technique, I played a position I never played before, with a dull feeling quite well.

Yes, I played it quite well.

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I think without this method I would have? had no confidence to try it.
And therefore I would have missed the chance to play against a well-known club. I wouldn't have made this experience that brought me one step further.

More information doesn't mean better results. And again I am not generalizing. But I am talking about a specific situation where you don't have time to prepare yourself adequately. The heuristic can be an answer.

Read carefully! I said can be, not will be.
During my life, I made good experience using this method, and I can recommend it to you.

You can find a proper solution even with limited information. With this limited information, you are able to make good decisions. You don't need to know everything when you focus on some I call them Key rules.

When your boss demands something you never did before, you don't need to panic. You don't have to be a master in that certain field. Is there anywhere information you can use? Maybe you watched your workmate doing it, or you read a book about it. You are able to get a solution with limited information. It could be a way to overcome unexpected fear ​because you are able to find a solution.