My secret to staying focused under pressure | Russell Wilson

Translator: María Canales Corbí Reviewer: Anna Comas-Quinn

June 8, 2010,

8 de juny, 2010.

Russell Wilson, fourth-round pick to the Colorado Rockies baseball.

Russell Wilson, seleccionat per la quarta ronda pel Colorado Rockies.

I'm fired up,

Estic a tope,

one of the highest moments of my life.

un del moments claus de la meva vida.

Every kid's dream to be drafted by a Major League Baseball team.

Somni de tots els nens: que et seleccioni un equip de Gran Lliga de Beisbol

June 8, 2010.

8 de juny, 2010.

June 9, 2010 --

9 de juny, 2010 --

(Imitating flatline sound)

(Soroll monitor cardíac)

The line goes flat.

S’atura el pols.

My dad passes away.

El meu pare ha mort.

The highest of the high

Del cim més alt,

to the lowest of the low.

a la foscor més absoluta.

Just like that.

En un tres i no res.

My dad laying in his deathbed,

El meu pare al seu llit de mort.

just tears running down my face,

Les llàgrimes em baixen per les galtes.

you know, what do I do next?

Què he de fer ara?

My mind racing, memories, flashbacks, moments,

La meva ment accelerada, records, flashbacks, moments,

early mornings, getting up,

matinades, despertars,

taking grounders and throwing,

taloneres i llançaments.

speed outs and deep post routes to my brother and my dad,

sprints i jugades amb el meu germà i el meu pare.

to early morning car rides to AAU baseball,

Viatges en cotxe a jugar al AAU,

to my dad being the third-base coach.

on el pare es va convertir en un dels entrenadors.

Fast-forward to the championship high of winning a Super Bowl,

Guanyar el Súper Bowl al campionat principal.

holding up the Lombardi Trophy

El trofeu de Lombardia.

and the emotions and the excitement of it all,

Les emocions, l’excitació,

blue and green confetti all over the place

el confeti que cau per tot arreu,

la sensació d'aconseguir el Súper Bowl.

and knowing that you just won the Super Bowl,

to a year later, the pressure of the game,

Un any més tard la pressió del joc,

the ball on the one-yard line,

la pilota a la línia d'una iarda,

and this is the chance to win the game, and it doesn't work.

l’única oportunitat de guanyar. Però no va.

And however many millions and millions of people

Milions i milions de persones,

all over the world watching.

a tot el món veuen el partit.

And having to walk to the media,

Explicacions a la premsa,

and what do I say next, what do I do, what do I think?

Què he de dir, què he de fer, què he de pensar?

Being married at a young age

Casat molt jove,

and just coming out of college and everything else,

just en graduar-me i tot,

to, you know, shortly after, marriage not working out

i t'adones que el matrimoni no marxa.

and realizing, you know what?

I t'adones, sabeu què?

Life happens.

Que aquestes coses passen.

Life happens, life happens to all of us.

Aquestes coses li passen a tothom.

Loss of family members, divorce,

Perdre familiars, divorciar-se,

fear, pain, depression, concerns, worries.

por, pena, depressions, inquietuds, preocupacions.

When you think about being superpositive --

Quan penses a ser súper positiu

yes, I'm positive by nature,

(sí, ho sóc de naturalesa).

but positivity, you know, it doesn't always work,

Però, la positivitat no sempre funciona.

because when you're down 16-nothing in an NFC championship game,

Quan al marcador hi ha un 16-0 en un campionat de la NCF

and people are like,

i et diuen:

"Russ, we're not going to be able to win this game, man,

“Russ, no remuntem el partit, amic,

això pinta malament".

it's not a great situation right now,"

or when you're facing cancer,

Quan afrontes un càncer

o quan has de bregar amb problemes,

or when you have things you have to deal with

qüestions econòmiques, i tal,

or finances and this and that,

like, how do we deal with it?

com afrontes aquestes situacions?

It's hard to be positive in the midst of it all.

És complicat ser positiu en mig de tot.

And what I definitely knew was this:

Vaig aprendre això:

la negativitat funciona sempre.

that negativity works 100 percent of the time.

Negativity was going to get me nowhere.

Però no em duria enlloc.

Vaig començar a dir: “Noves són les seves misericòrdies cada matí”,

I started saying to myself, "New are his mercies every morning,"

new beginnings, new starts.

nous dies, nous començaments.

And despite hardship and pain and worries and wanting to get through it

Malgrat les dificultats, guanyaven les ganes de superar-ho

em preguntava, com ho faig, això?

and "How do I do this?",

Vaig començar a pensar en un cotxe.

I started thinking about a car.

You know how when you drive a car, you've got stick shift

Sabeu quan canvieu de marxa,

i després torneu a punt mort?

and you want to shift to neutral?

You go from first gear to second gear, all the way to fifth?

Quan de segona marxa passes a cinquena.

Has de saber com tornar a punt mort.

You've got to know how to shift to neutral.

Necessitava tornar a punt mort, abans d’enfonsar-me.

And I needed to shift to neutral immediately, before I crashed.

Sitting there after the Super Bowl,

Asseure’m allí després del Súper Bowl

I had a decision to make:

i haver de prendre una decisió.

Will I let this define my career? Will I let it define my life?

Deixaria que tot allò sentenciés la meva carrera i vida?

Hell, no.

Mare de Déu, no.

Vaig descobrir que la manera de pensar, és una habilitat.

What I found out was this: that mindset is a skill.

It can be taught and learned.

Pot ser entrenada i ensenyada.

I started 10 years ago, training my mind,

Vaig començar fa deu anys a entrenar la ment

with this guy named Trevor Moawad, my mental conditioning coach.

amb el meu entrenador Trevor Moawad.

Ha estat amb mi 10 anys

He's been with me for 10 years,

i de llavors ençà som bons amics.

and we've been best friends and partners ever since.

Com a atletes, entrenem el cos,

As athletes, we train the body,

per a correr més ràpid, llançar més lluny, etc.

we train ourselves to be able to run fast, throw farther, jump higher

i per a aconseguir diferent coses.

and do these different things,

Per què no entrenem la ment?

but why don't we train our mind?

Com vols que sigui la teva vida?

What do you want your life to look like?

Escriu, parla, digues-ho.

Write it out, talk about it, say it.

Quina és la teva sintonia, a què s'assembla,

What's our language, what does it look like,

mira els centellejos, Russell, dels teus millors moments

watch these highlights, Russell, when you're in your best moments.

A què s'assemblen?

What does that look like?

And be that, live that, sound like that.

Fes-ho, viu-ho, compleix-ho.

The best free throw shooters,

Els millors llançadors,

no es preocupen de l'error comès.

they don't worry about the shot they just missed.

És ara, aquest llançament,

They think about this shot,

this putt, this throw, this first down.

aquesta jugada.

Then I met this kid Milton Wright, 19 years old,

Llavors vaig conèixer a Milton Wright, 19 anys,

he had cancer three different times.

va tenir càncer tres vegades.

This day when I went to see him, he was frustrated,

Quan el vaig veure, estava frustrat,

“No vull passar altra vegada per això,

"Russ, I'm done, I don't want to do this anymore,

ha arribat la meva hora".

it's my time to go."

I started telling him this story about my dad,

Li vaig parlar del meu pare,

que em deia: “Fill meu, per què tu no?”

how he used to say, "Son, why not you?

Why don't you graduate early, play pro football and pro baseball?

Per què no jugues a futbol i beisbol d’èlit?

Why not you, why not you?"

Per què tu no fill, per què tu no?

I li vaig dir: “Per què tu no, Milton?

I said, "Milton, why not you?

If you tried T-cell therapy,

Si vas intentar un tractament,

and you try this and it doesn't work,

i ho intentes ara i no marxa,

you won't remember it."

no te'n recordaràs.”

So Milton got a smile on his face and said,

Milton somrigué i em digué,

"You're exactly right.

“Tens tota la raò.

Yes, I do have cancer, Russ.

Sí, tinc càncer, Russ.

Però, puc deixar que acabi amb mí,

But I can either let this kill me,

not just physically,

no sols físicament,

but I can also let it kill me emotionally and mentally.

sinó mentalment i emocional.

Tinc ara l’opció de triar, enmig de tot això,

And I have a choice right now, in the midst of the problem,

in the midst of the storm,

enmig de la borrasca,

to decide to overcome."

si vull superar-ho o no."

One of the questions I always get asked about neutral thinking is this:

Una de les coses que em pregunten és:

"Aleshores, no he de tenir cap emoció? "

"Does that mean I don't have any emotion?"

And I always say, absolutely not.

Jo sempre hi contesto que de cap manera.

Yeah, we have emotions,

Sí, tenim emocions,

we have real-life situations,

situacions de la vida real,

we have things to deal with.

tenim coses amb les que bregar.

But what you have to be able to do is to stay focused on the moment

El que s'ha de fer és seguir en el present,

and to not be superemotional.

no deixar-se portar per les emocions.

It's OK to have emotions, but don't be emotional.

Està bé tenir sentiments, pero no cal ser sentimental.

When people look at me,

Quan la gent m’observa,

they see that I'm the highest-paid player in the NFL,

veuen al jugador millor pagat de la NFL,

they see that I have the girl and Ciara,

veuen que tinc a Ciara, la meva dona,

that I have the family and this and that.

que tinc família, etc.

But I still have real-life situations.

Però també afronto situacions de la vida.

We all do.

Tots ho hem de fer.

We all have, you know, sadness and loss

Tots patim tristesa, pèrdues,

and depression and worries and fear.

depressions, problemes i pors.

I didn't just get here.

No he arribat fins aquí fàcilment.

Quina és la veritat,

What's the truth,

and how do I come through this better?

i com he arribat fins ací?

And that's really, kind of, how my mind started shifting.

La meva ment va començar a canviar.

No va ser en el triomf absolut, ni en el fracàs estrepitós,

It was not just on the success of it all or the failure of it,

it was on the process, like:

sinó en el procés,

preguntant-me quin era el pas següent, com ho faig aquí i ara?

What is the next step, how do I do this right here, right now?

Hem de prendre decisions a la vida.

We have a choice to make in life.

And for me, when I was young and I didn't have much,

En el meu cas, quan era jove i no tenia molt,

I made a choice.

vaig prendre una decisió.

I made a choice that I was going to believe

Volia creure

that great things were going to happen,

que em passarien bones coses,

that I was going to have my mindset right,

que mantindria l'estabilitat emocional,

and I was going to have the right language

que tindria el llenguatge correcte

and the right things to think about,

i pensaria en les coses adequades,

which helped prepare me for today.

que em prepararien per al dia d’avui.

Because I'm just human.

Només sóc un ésser humà.

I just have the ability to throw the ball a long way

Només sé llançar la pilota lluny,

córrer i fer alguns bons llançaments

and run around and make some cool and fun throws

and make some people smile.

que fan somriure a la gent.

Però encara tinc pressió,

But the reality is that I still have pressure,

I still have worries, I still have fears,

preocupacions, encara tinc pors,

I still have things that happen.

encara m’enfronto a coses,

Still have loss.

encara sofreixo pèrdues.

Positivity can be dangerous.

La positivitat pot ser perillosa,

But what always works is negativity.

però sempre és millor que la negativitat.

I never wanted to live in negativity,

No volia viure en la negativitat,

so I stayed in neutral.

aleshores m’he mantingut en el punt mitjà.

I kept my shift in neutral.

a la marxa neutra.

And so that's where I lived,

Així és on vaig viure,

and that's where I've been living ever since.

i on he viscut fins ara.