The positive illusion mindset is one of the most important mindset orientations of elite athletes. As I wrote recently, the positive illusion mindset is what allows elite athletes to maintain their motivation as they train for 10,000 hours over 10 years. As stated in the Journal of Sport Psychology by authors Peter Catina, Ph.D. and […]
A critical mindset lesson young athletes must learn if they want to progress to college athletics is how to lose. All competitive athletes hate losing. However, if this hate is stronger than the love of winning it will stunt an athlete’s growth. Therefore, athletes must learn how to manage their mindset around hating to lose. There […]
Hard work is hard. Blood, sweat and tears. There is no sugar coating this. So how could this be fun? It’s a fact that some athletes have fun through the blood, sweat, and tears of training and competing to be the best. Are these athletes crazy? How could anyone have fun as their body and […]