You are a product of your experiences. They shape you, make you cautious or combative, inspire or pull you down. There is no escaping them and you shouldn't have to either.
That might help you understand why it is so difficult to simply cut yourself off and take fresh guard at the start of every match or even every session. Some are really good at it: they can compartmentalise and focus on multiple things at the same time. But for most, cutting off that link isn't as easy.
But this is exactly what India skipper Jasprit Bumrah is hoping his team can do when the first Test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy begins here on Friday.
A disappointing series loss against New Zealand - India's first in 12 years at home - had many questioning the focus and commitment of the team. But Bumrah wants his players to move on. They have to.
"The beauty of our cricket is even if you win, you start from zero, even if you lose, you start from zero, so that's how I look at the game," said Bumrah in the pre-match press conference here on Thursday. "We won the World Cup but that does not mean that we became complacent in other series (against New Zealand)....."
Bumrah added: "Yes, we were disappointed (with the result against NZ) and we were down that we had a tough series last time around, but we are not carrying baggages. We come with a fresh mindset against a different opposition in different conditions."
Different conditions
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