Athletes and entrepreneurs are remarkably similar. Both require specialized skills, and advancing in both require the ability to continually jump skill levels. In addition, only the top 1% reach elite levels in both. In other words, many try, most fail. Correspondingly, there are far more failures than success stories in both, but this does not […]
Unquestionably, the mental side of sports is as important, if not more important than the physical side of sports. If you ask any coach what percentage of sports is mental, you almost always get an answer that’s somewhere between 50% and 90% mental. Rarely will you ever hear a coach with a significant amount of experience […]
In her preeminent book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. provides a simple definition of mindset. She defines mindset as: The view you adopt for yourself [that] profoundly affects the way you lead your life. Dweck goes on to make the case that one’s mindset determines whether or not a person […]