Yesterday I was working with a small group of athletes on some techniques that made them look and feel clumsy. Within the first 10 minutes I heard the word “can’t” at least four times. The word “can’t” is the poster child for having a fixed mindset. Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. in her preeminent book on mindset describes […]
Time management may be the biggest opportunity high school athletes have 100% under their control for self-improvement. However, if an athlete uses time as an excuse, this will remain a missed opportunity. The prevailing mindset amongst high school athletes is that putting in time entitles them to something. The thought pattern is that if an […]
For a variety of cultural reasons, there is nothing an athlete hates more than doing modified push-ups on their knees. It’s like an insult to them. However, looking at modified push-ups in this way is a mistake. Unfortunately, society has conditioned us to have an all or nothing mindset. So, an athlete would rather do […]