October 21st, 2008

Recently, I have interested myself in the subject of Cognitive dissonance. A prime example of how dissonance affects perception is my experience with long distance running for the wrestling team that directly followed wrestling drills and practice matches with other teammates. On days that I felt I did not perform well I would go outside and just view the stretch that we would be sprinting and running and it would appear to stretch for so long to the point where it even looked like it was beyond my field of vision. I felt like such crap that I would consider not even trying hard because I would not be able to run all of it. On days where I did perform well and I won a few on my practice matches the running area looked like a half mile long and I would think to myself “I totally will rock this today”.