Peak performance comes from balancing challenge and skill. In the classic mindset book Flow in Sports: The keys to optimal experiences and performances, the research of the authors Susan Jackson and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi shows that the challenge-skill balance is one of 9 dimensions an athlete needs for flow in sports. In addition, Jackson and Csikszentmihalyi […]
Group coaching is instrumental in the process of identifying skills an athlete needs to jump levels. However, group coaching rarely helps athletes gain those skills. It takes private coaching to realize those gains. The reason why is that every athlete is different. In a group coaching session, there is just not enough time to customize […]
In sports it’s extremely important that athletes have a growth mindset and not a fixed mindset. Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. in her preeminent book on mindset describes the growth mindset as believing that self-improvement is a product of hard work. In addition, when you have a growth mindset you also believe that the innate talents […]