Two Reasons Yianni’s Mindset Lost him Final X Before the Match Started

The 2019 freestyle Final X match between Yianni Diakomihalis and Zain Retherford was a classic battle between two fan favorites. Almost everyone was picking Yianni to win because not only had he beat Zain already this year, he also recently beat world #1 at 65 KG Bajrang Punia fairly convincingly. With that said, Yianni was […]

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John Wooden’s Definition of Success

If you ask 10 different people to define success, you will get 10 different answers. From this perspective, success is a lot like beauty as it’s in the eye of the beholder. With that said, one of my favorite definitions of success comes from the greatest basketball coach and arguably overall coach of all time, […]

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Why Self-Awareness is Good and Self-Consciousness is Bad in Sports

Today I am continuing my deep dive into one of the seminal books on optimizing performance, Flow in Sports. This time, I want to share a few unique nuggets of wisdom the authors explain about the difference between self-awareness and self-consciousness. The key points the authors highlight are that: Self-awareness is internal and self-consciousness is […]

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