Mental toughness is a character trait one must earn by successfully completing activities that require mental toughness. These activities include those that cause emotions that deal with pain, discipline, boredom, repetition, fear, and fatigue. Moreover, it’s through the process of completing these types of activities that an athlete develops mental toughness by learning the behaviors […]
Peak performance comes from balancing challenge and skill. In the classic mindset book Flow in Sports: The keys to optimal experiences and performances, the research of the authors Susan Jackson and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi shows that the challenge-skill balance is one of 9 dimensions an athlete needs for flow in sports. In addition, Jackson and Csikszentmihalyi […]
There are two reasons why learning from failure is overrated. Firstly, learning from success is far more efficient than learning from failure. In fact, research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business strongly supports that you learn more from success than failure. Secondly, as I wrote a couple days ago, most people fail […]