How do you unleash your "A" game?

There is a Belfortian way to answer this question... or you can just watch the movie.

I dig it.....I.....dig......it. @BabydickCapital

I'm afraid his ways are too hardcore for me =/ @Classica

I never really understood the "whole pump up thing" outside of sports and the gym, or maybe on a sales desk.

If I have to make an important presentation to potential LPs, I want to be calm and collected --- zen like, ignoring the large stakes at hand.

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If these songs don't get you ready to fuck shit up... you need to check your pulse.

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very good question and then the content of the post couldn't match the quality. sad

Different people get pumped up in different ways. When I played college football, the majority of the team would blast music, bark like dogs, punch each other, etc. to get pumped up before games. Others, including myself, would be joking around and looking for hotties in the stands right up until kickoff. Others would be calm and collected almost like they were meditating. Regardless of these difference, all of us were ready to play when we got on the field because we practiced like hell all week.

The same applies to the business world. If you're fully prepared, know your shit and can visualize yourself winning it doesn't really matter what you do to clear your head directly before. Just find what works for you.

Okay so I posted before but clearly wasn't serious. The points above about feeling prepared being the biggest thing definitely applies to any sort of business situation. However, being a college athlete, I always try to listen to a song that will get my blood flowing before a game because that's the necessary mood. The Jay-Z song above applies, as well as something like 5am in Toronto by Drake.

For interviews, my routine always went something like this: However long it takes me to get ready, tack on about 30 minutes to that. I would go through everything meticulously, making sure that I didn't rush anything so that I looked my best. This applies to something like shaving, where rushing will obviously cause nicks and cuts on your face. I have a favorite suit and tie combination; I wear that for every single interview. After going through one or two qualitative interview questions in my head right before I got in the cab on the way over to the interview (something particular to the firm, like "Why this bank?" or "Why this group?"), I would shove my headphones in and put on some relaxing music to get in a good spot mentally.

Any time you have to actively try to put yourself on higher level of performance through some ritual, you're admitting implicitly that you - that is, the regular you - doesn't have what it takes. Put in the work and show up knowing you have it. You'll never be nervous again.

"Let no one or anything stand between you and the difficult task, let nothing deny you this rich chance to gain strength by adversity, confidence by mastery, success by deserving it. Do it better each time. Do it better than anyone else can do it" - Harlow Curtice

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