Perhaps the biggest “mental” challenge performance and race drivers face is maintaining their focus. But what’s most important is how quickly you can regain your focus, and I share a strategy for doing so in this Speed Secrets Quick Tip.
Want to get lucky? Then mentally program being lucky. Yes, you can actually improve your chances of things going your way by changing your belief system through mentally imagery.
Many people talk about how it’s not the destination that counts, it’s the journey. That does not apply to cross-country road trips. You can have the journey all you want—especially the part where you’re driving through Montana…
When I talk about cross-country road trips, I’m talking about trips where the objective is to get from here to there in the shortest time, not the kind where you meander around the country looking for something to do. I know very little about this second type of trip, other than the people who do them piss me off with their speed (or lack thereof), and their seemingly carefree and clueless changes of direction.
Scenery is just one factor in how much boredom a driver experiences during cross-country travel. Other factors are the number and type of passengers you have with you, what else you have on your mind, the time of day (or night), and how long it’s been since you last ate a chocolate chip cookie or drank a Pepsi.