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L’audace d’être soi ! Un autre regard sur la performance. | Helene SCHMIT | TEDxAnnecy


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have you ever experienced a
success that seemed to you seems
completely natural you know this
strange and delicious feeling to be
arrived at the result you are
arrived without forcing sometimes even without the
want to
it’s magic, is not it?
discovered snowboard
when I was 16 that marked the
beginning of a chain reaction of
incredible passion that led me to
discover the street sledge six years more
late and through this practice has
connected to live and understand these
magic moments
the streak him that’s it and in white
before it’s me we go down
to lay feet in front of roads
hilly closed to traffic
secured with straw boots
parade mattresses all the vocabulary
that you can imagine associated with
sliding sports to extreme sports there
regains intensity speed
adrenaline the fun and the risk he
soon turned out that I had a
huge pleasure to go sledding
also buzz board which is a
other smaller discipline more
handy more player and I had
also certain facility
it led me to be world champion
european champion four or five times
champion of France in women category
and each time in both
disciplines is also where it’s
become even more interesting it’s
when I started doing
results in open category with the
men so I accumulated with the
years the places of honor with
once an incartade on a podium but
you know what
there is one thing I would like you to
speak today it’s this report to the
competition and performance
because always when I was on
events there was a
I do not know what I liked means
what you know what
the competition was not at all
cup of tea but then not at all I
always seen as a ticket to access
at absolutely incredible roads that
blow bleach there
chance to roll closed to traffic
and secure with my friends and a
way generally spent time really
quality with the community
international or national
the competition itself has always been a
price to pay
never an end in itself amazing for
someone who has one who has but my titles
I say look at this picture
look at my head I’m in the middle
decomposition I am a little the position
in the final of the championships of France de
descent a buzz board so these little ones
more manageable gear which I will
spoke and in view of my results on
previous rounds
I have a good chance to access the
highest step of the podium
there would have suddenly made history in
the story of the streak us being the
first triple woman plays in longboard
to reach the first step of a podium
in open category and yet or
maybe because of that I have that one
want to run away from me
internal dialogue is going on at this
moment there it is quite intense
I have a blockage vis-à-vis the pressure
it’s really this relationship to a
obligation to perform well at a
given moment that will make me lose a
part of my means if I let this
pressure take over and with everything
the respect I have for people
who have this ability to arrive at
incredible results at the price of one
iron will of a discipline
incredible and resistance to
seamless pressure
it’s something I do not
am never found
I always had that feeling of
feel like a form of fraud
because I had a form of vision
binary of the performance this vision
binary they were either you are a
outstanding competitor who is
completely committed discipline is
pressure resistant able to have
an amazing workout or so you
es 7 dilettante completely illegitimate
who
tina who does not have a say if there is
well one thing that I learned with the
time is that the fill there is nothing
of binary one did not be in a
category or in the other and that one can
achieve performance and fulfillment
through many paths
these blockages I understood them as
being a legacy of a form
of cultural and societal injunction
combines self-transcendence and
performance to a spartan discipline
and an almost combative attitude
this is my analysis and it is
found in popular expressions
I took some to
illustrate my intention to compete
with oneself even to be violence or then
plethora of quotes including this one
particularly uplifting of bruce lee
who tells us who wants to succeed
must learn to fight to persevere
and to suffer I do not know you me that’s me
not want to be
performing according to his terms and I
learned in fact with the nuanced years
this thing by cons I wanted to go
a little bit further when I
started doing this research for
you basically find only
quotes i’m said let’s see
the etymology of the word performance is there
it became really interesting
do you figure that in old French
performance refers to perfection in
being fulfilled
it is also a word to the origins
Anglo Saxon that comes from the vocabulary of
horse racing that refers to
horse behavior during the race
it’s the cultural and
societal who have done very gently
drag this notion to a quest without
end of a record ever more extreme
and we also see it through the
synonyms that are associated in the
dictionary such as record exploit
prowess so we have a notion that has
slipped over time it turns out that me
and many other people who have
maybe not learned to articulate it from the
same way is not found in
this vision of performance
even when I try too much wurz and the
hot and do me violence
the result is downright the opposite of
the one I would like to have I got
realized that ultimately my whole life
whether it’s through my path
sports but also my studies and my
professional life I have always been
in this quest for the correctness of
the experience I was trying to
live and that’s how I have
connected to a performance not only
just for me
aligned with who I am but also
with a result that was quite
favorable I distinguish three components
to this notion of this performance to
through the accuracy of the experience the
first is self-knowledge
what I mean by that is how
you allow yourself to reach your
full potential by taking advantage of your
natural talents first and foremost in
cultivating rather than you force by
defect in a mold that does not
not necessarily even if at
first sight your natural talents
may seem like weaknesses in
look at a clichés vision of a sport
such as the strict tell him look
me or a job or a job
this picture illustrates very well my
about as you can see i’m
very aerodynamic
it’s because elegance and style
are extremely important things
for me when I started
I started learning to ride
cleanly and technically before daring
go fast pretty much the absolute opposite
the learning chosen by most
riders who makes that we have
regularly or in public danger
on the road the time they pretty
experience for 20 to qualify their
way of approaching sledging
so this cleanliness makes me very
aerodynamic and I compensate I miss
of weight by taking the suction so in
putting behind and exceeding
people second advantage of my jig
I need a lot less braking in
turn entrance because I risk
much less to skid the blow I
come out of curve with
many reminders
third advantage completely against
intuitive pushed him to start we push
like asses of jatte a little
so obviously I do not necessarily have the
average size of my friends rider
around me though a yoga fan
and before that I did a lot of surfing
so the technicality that it is
practically at door and allowed me very
of course to compensate for my lack of
physical power of physical strength the
made my fourth jig advantage
I am a princess I hate myself
really crash that annoys me to the highest
point
so I took advantage of it
very natural
my high speed of data analytics
what does my pretty brain offer me
anticipate situations as much as possible
issues
or then have very fast reflexes
to get me out of situations
potentially damaging to my
physical integrity and the last one is
that rice and canary fun are
things that I wear at the level of
value and beyond to bring me a
well-being without a name is something
who will multiply my potential so
unbelievable
so finally what did I do
I did with who I was
hours to analyze the curves and to
look what was the money time
as we call it on the 100 line
million dollars that will make you
pass everyone or so my
material I make them all cried because
that I have the same turnover so it’s
little gums for ten years then
they all change at every race
Romanian is the same same brand
if I have a regular short end I
just discovered that by learning to myself
to trust and not to suffer
the pressures from the outside on a
potentially codified vision for
access to some performance and
Well, it gave results really
friendly
and finally when I pushed myself a
little too much because maybe in fact
they are right and well I got
once found to crash I felt
10 210 kilometers because I had
changed my gums that I took bobl
and that made me stolen mom I can
tell you that my shoulder they are
still so very big lesson to this
opportunity there and there’s that brings us to the
second component the second
component it’s also important
that consciousness and knowledge of
self is the consciousness and the
knowledge of his environment
because your environment it can
to transcend your potential
or else on the contrary have an impact
very negative on both your
well-being and on your performance
this picture for me illustrates
perfectly a moment of absolute magic
so for you it does not speak to you
necessarily but basically there is six
two fronts at the entrance of a 90 ° bend
right so right angle
the road is closed to traffic
rest assured you arrive at 70 80 km / hour
and very clearly there is not really
a lot of room for error
we are very focused sits on our
face turns by the way
we have known each other for years
appreciates we respect each other enormously and
more importantly we trust our
mutual ability managed any hazard that
could come and that’s gold at
beyond that there are people who have a
very very big level on this picture
so that creates a positive emulation
incredible and the general vibe of
the event was fantastic and he
was sunny so all the lights
were green I still remember
even of this turn of this moment six years
later ah yes it was not a
competition it’s a free ride it helps
a lot also my performance
individual nature was the result
of a group dynamics of a
positive emulation from a
environment that was right and that he
put not only security mode
challenge comes in a positive way in
qualifying time the future of
fairly average results
on the other hand when I find myself in phase
final in hens of four that’s where
I have a rabbit I have visual cues
and there suddenly the magic operates I
give 3 3 aspects to this notion
of environment first of all there are the
people who is around you on the line
starting or in your team you have
well understood that we can very easily
to make the parallel with life
professional who is on the line of
departure with you do I
know and those that I make them
trust
how do I feel then the context
what is the general mood of
the event is what I feel a
strong sense of belonging or not
third context what are the
risks to manage once again they
are the people around me is that
I know them is what I know that
their behavior can wear heaven me
you risked
what is the security of the road
how do I decide to position myself
vis-à-vis that and then what
looks like the low sides behind the
security is it an embankment
green and welcoming or is it
it’s a ravine with 100 m of gas or everything
now it can be fatal
to go to the other side of the protections
because the environment is not
always ideal but there are two things one
has the responsibility to know which
and the environment that is good for us
and adjust our behavior in
result
or so to adjust things so that
it’s more accurate but sometimes
where you have to deal with
the environment is not ideal either
downright toxic and at that moment there
there is one very important thing to take
into consideration and that brings us to the
third component is go back to
heart and body so what is that
I mean, it’s back to
the essence why are you here for
what I started doing this sport in
first place what are the emotions and
the sensations I’m looking for
and especially how can I
to connect them to the
circumstances
on the starting line when I feel that
the pressure goes completely game that
I feel like I’m putting
in this situation where sometimes under the
stress I can spit on my own
it happened to me two or three times
it’s very frustrating but when the weather
I am going up in pressure
so I close my eyes I
remember why I started this
sport
at the time in 2003 what are the
reasons that made me come
on this event I remodel all the
speech in my head is at that time
he the only stake of just took the
more pleasure in not hurting me because
what do you remember I’m a princess
and in that moment what is
goes on I completely disconnect myself from a
challenge to go round turn tower
next where to win the competition I
loose control I let go of the mind and
that’s where magic operates
because it’s in those moments that
I’m going to take myself to the game I’m going to
remember how much I love
enjoy myself
and that I will end up going over everything
or part of my dear competitors with
who had at length
explained on the starting line at which
point I was stressed and they were going
still race without me
because that’s a lot of pressure
So sometimes it annoys me sometimes
it makes them laugh but the result is the
even
me it allows me loads and the
pressure because control it without
interest the technique is there the experience
it’s important strategy
we know all the benefits that this
can have and of course it’s
important to know how to push yourself a little
but the magic works when you add
this extra soul when you allow
the emotion and the sensations to come back
when all of a sudden doing this
you open the doors wide at this
super powers we all have in us who
is called intuition is intuition
who will come to transcend the experience and
the technique
and that’s where the magic it operates
that’s all of a sudden I’m going to take
a completely improbable cut that
on the paper did not work but who will
allow me to go out in front of the whole
world or that I’m going slightly shifted
finally schultz
when we arrive in the last corner
because yes something that is not good
and that a few seconds later it’s
Crash in front of me braking ba voila
thank you bingo of a pipe what I want
tell you today ladies gentlemen
it is that the flourishing expression
of self and the performance to take
paths that you would not have
imagine today I would like that
you open your perspectives on
different ways that you have for
connect to your full potential and
your performance
I would like you to allow added
strings to your bow cared for the
process as much as the result even
even to attach even more
of importance today I would like that
you are performing and fulfilling the
more beautiful way that is by having
the audacity to be daring to be you
even and develop your natural talents
by daring to look after your environment
to connect to the sensations in the heart
intuition it’s your right the most
absolute and I will go further this is your
duty because no one will
for you because nobody knows
the answers nobody knows the
recipe for your flourishing
your full potential
so remember those moments
magic that I told you about in
introduction what were the
ingredients I will leave you home
reappropriating for a moment this dear
paul verlaine and his poetic art and in
telling you the rightness and
alignment carefully before anything
and everything else is literature
thank you
[Applause]
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