In the fall of 2009, I was sitting in the kitchen of the small house Jon Jones and his girlfriend rented in Ithaca, N.Y..
I was listening to him lay out a plan for all the spectacular violence he planned to visit upon Matt Hamill just a few months later.
Jones was only three fights into his UFC career at the time, and still less than two years into his MMA career as a whole, but even then the future champion was big on mental preparation, visualization, all that.