The Three Phases Of High Performance, According To Manuel Coloma

High performance is not a concept limited to elite athletes or big business men/women. We can all aspire to be high income people, because we can all be much more than we are now, much more than we ever imagined we were.

After all, as you’ll discover in this article, high performance isn’t a matter of high knowledge or technique, it’s a matter of momentum; an impulse that comes out of all of us.

For Manuel Coloma, high performance directly depends on the ability to guide and align all our capabilities towards the objective we seek. And this is true both for sports and for professional and personal life. In this article, we’ll look at your high-yield theory and how to apply it.

To get the most out of it, you need to know your limits.

Manuel Coloma proposes that, in order to achieve high performance, it is necessary to know one’s own limits, in order to then ignore them and, thus, surpass them. High performance is about pushing the boundaries of what we think we can know or do today.

We are in a permanent evolution, says Coloma. We are on a permanent quest for excellence, which boils down to keeping our expectations high so that our performance is even greater.

High performance phases

For Manuel Coloma, high performance is based on three properties or phases (steps): energy, audacity and patience.  

Energy: knowledge + technique + motivation

Energy is what allows people to do the work they want to do. In sports, talking about energy is talking about physical capacity. In daily work, energy is represented by knowledge, the technique with which we are able to develop our work and motivation.

Motivation is especially important for achieving energy as it is the drive to do what we have to do. After all, without impulse, without motivation to do it, there is little point in having a lot of knowledge or mastering the techniques.

Audacity: ability to differentiate

Audacity is about creativity, innovation and productivity. Coloma explains that audacity is being able to get out of the rule, to seek new solutions, seeing something where others had not seen anything, doing what others did not.

In other words, for Coloma, audacity has to do with the ability to differentiate yourself from others. Something that doesn’t have to do with energy, but with how we are able to adapt, being flexible, with the capacities that, at a given moment, we are able to develop.

Patience: metabolizing lived experience

For Manuel Coloma, patience is the lived and metabolized experience, wisdom. He explains that it’s only when we reach this last phase that we know whether we need to focus more on energy or boldness.

Global Proprioceptive Behavior: Dominating the Park

When a person goes through these three steps, energy, audacity and patience, he manifests what Manuel Coloma calls propioceptively global behavior. Propioception is related to the way we perceive ourselves in our surroundings, with the ability to dominate the space in which we work.

Coloma calls it “dominating the park,” the way a basketball player dominates the court or an investor dominates his economic landscape. Thus, to dominate the park is to be able to predict the scope and consequences of your actions.

For this, it is essential to be positive and optimistic, which implies the following:

• Thinking about what we want to achieve;
• Keeping yourself in shape, both physically and mentally;
• Invest resources, especially time.

To seek high yield

Coloma clearly says that anyone who wants to pursue high performance must first become an autonomous person who is able to develop their work on their own, without the need for anyone to witness it or tell them what to do.

A person is autonomous when he takes the impulse from himself, from the internal motivation he has. These people are the ones that are getting closer to achieving high income. That’s why Coloma says that those who want to achieve high performance should be more concerned with motivation and drive than with technique and knowledge, as these can be acquired.

Manuel Coloma has a degree in Psychology and a specialist in high performance. He was a professional basketball coach for three decades and a basketball coach for six years. In her phase in the Spanish women’s national team, she won the first gold medal in Spanish basketball in 1993.