A high pain tolerance is a requirement to become a better athlete. Unfortunately, in nearly every sport, developing skills to achieve specific results is painful. It requires conditioning the body to tolerate extreme fatigue, thousands of hours of repetition, performing while hurt, injury recovery, and learning from failure, among other things. However, it’s an instinct for […]
Just because an athlete goes to practice the day after they lose, doesn’t mean they will get help learning from that loss. Learning from losing is a process that requires specific steps, steps that are not part of the normal practice process. Furthermore, assuming that practice makes perfect is a bad assumption. Practice does NOT […]
Today as I was reading Andre Agassi’s autobiography Open (which I highly recommend), I came across a remarkable quote from Nelson Mandela. Agassi shares this quote as he writes about a transformational time in his life visiting with Mandela in South Africa raising money for the Nelson Mandela Foundation at a tennis event. Agassi quotes […]