{"id":8534,"date":"2018-03-12T09:03:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T16:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=8534"},"modified":"2018-03-12T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T16:03:44","slug":"q-whats-the-difference-between-the-zone-red-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-whats-the-difference-between-the-zone-red-mist\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: What’s the difference between the Zone & Red Mist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q<\/strong>: \u201cWhen you are in the Zone you feel everything and react almost subconsciously, but have you gone too far if you are in the ‘Red Mist’? Can you discuss your concept of the ‘Red Mist’ versus being in ‘The Zone’?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

A<\/strong>: If you think of the Zone as a state that you get into where you\u2019re no longer consciously thinking, but driving mostly subconsciously, then I think of Red Mist as almost a polar opposite. While a driver can get into a state where they\u2019re no longer consciously thinking, but in a wild Red Mist kind of mode, that\u2019s rare. Typically when a driver gets into the Red Mist mode, they\u2019re over-thinking, and are overly-focused on something \u2013 most often someone else (as in, \u201cI\u2019m going to catch that driver and run him off the track!\u201d).<\/p>\n

Red Mist is typically used to describe when a driver has lost control of his or her emotions, and is driving somewhat recklessly. Think of a time when you\u2019ve seen a driver turn into a bit of an animal on the track, trying to chase down another driver. Most often, the focus has gone from being in the moment and focused on one\u2019s own performance, and is now on an external object or result.<\/p>\n

Yes, in Red Mist it’s as if the driver is not thinking consciously, which is similar to being in the Zone. The biggest difference is that when you’re in the Zone you’re managing your emotions, whereas in Red Mist it’s as if the emotions have taken over.<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re in the zone, you\u2019re very much inner-focused, even though you\u2019re hyper-aware of what\u2019s going on around you. By that, I mean that you\u2019re focused on yourself, rather than another driver, the result, or anything else other than what it takes to perform at your best.<\/p>\n

By my definition of the Zone and Red Mist, anyway, one is not going beyond the other. In fact, they\u2019re going in very different directions. As I said, I think of them on opposite ends of the spectrum \u2013 both conscious\/subconscious effort and internal\/external focus scales. And in terms of managing emotions, they\u2019re opposites, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q: \u201cWhen you are in the Zone you feel everything and react almost subconsciously, but have you gone too far if you are in the ‘Red Mist’? Can you discuss your concept of the ‘Red Mist’ versus being in ‘The Zone’?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-ross"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8537,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions\/8537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}