Learning is addition. High Performance is subtraction.

A performance system that is growing and learning becomes too complicated. Performers are the same. Low performers continue to add and layer towards high performance. Like the mountaineers, everything can't go to the top. You won't make it. They travel light and take only what matters.

In performance sport we are not taught how and when to subtract soon enough. It happens when we have enough experience to understand where the leverage is. Or we are cornered, too busy, too tired and something has to go. High performers do it sooner.

Now is the time to create clarity. Lockdown has many disadvantages but one big advantage: you can choose what to put back.