Self-efficacy is defined by Emotional Intelligence author Daniel Goleman as “the belief that one has mastery over the events of one’s life and can meet challenges as they come up.” To raise a child with high self-efficacy, you much continuously take them through the process of overcoming new challenges. With each new challenge a child […]
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Yesterday I wrote about classifying athletes into four types based on the way the athlete focuses their thinking. These four types are categorized based on the direction of focus being either internal or external and the breadth of their focus being either broad or narrow. The names given to these four styles are as follows: […]
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Recently I started a deep dive into a book called The Inner Athlete by Robert M. Nideffer, Ph.D. The tag line for this book is Mind Plus Muscle For Winning. So as you could imagine, this book is dense in content focusing on the mental side of sports. One of the concepts the author covers […]