Assessing if an Athlete is Struggling Due to Mental or Physical Skills

If a coach does not spend a lot of time working with athletes on their mental skills, it’s difficult for that coach to assess that part of their game. When coaches only focus on the physical side of sports, every problem is a technical or tactical problem. As the saying goes, if the only tool […]

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Three Questions to Help You Evaluate Negative Feedback

Negative feedback is always difficult to swallow in the moment. My rule of thumb is to never respond to the feedback with anything other than open ears. While it’s true that not all negative feedback is useful and may require you to take it with a grain of salt, it’s still not useful to debate […]

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Mistakes of Successful People vs. Mistakes of Unsuccessful People

Contrary to popular belief, unsuccessful people make fewer mistakes than successful people. The reason for this is simple. Unsuccessful people don’t take as many risks as successful people. However, the few mistakes unsuccessful people make typically have greater consequences than the many that successful people make. The reason for this is not because successful people […]

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