Ricardo Liborio on Maturity, Losing, and Competing

Ricardo Liborio explains in A Fighter's Mind, his viewpoint on letting go of a lot of baggage and pressure and allowing yourself to perform the best:

Maturity is a big part of success in fighting, because it means you understand the game-that losing is part of the game.  It doesn't mean to let yourself get conquered, but to know that you can win again, at the right time you can be great. The key to doing well in competition is to accept. Accept you can lose, you can not perform.  Take this big bag of rocks out of your backpack, take the pressure off, and you’ll do better.  Once you understand that, man, you can do well.