All competitive athletes love winning and hate losing. There is no question about that. However, knowing which one trumps the other provides an important insight into one’s will to compete. In order to win, you must compete. To put it differently, you have to risk losing before you can win. On the other hand, you […]
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: […]
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 […]