At some point on the road to success you must accept that you must embrace pain. Not the pain of injury, disease, and trauma. Although, at least one of those types of pain are likely as well. I’m specifically talking about the pain of discipline, repetition, fatigue, boredom, and fear. You have no choice but […]
When an athlete’s effort decreases when challenges increase this means this athlete has an ego goal orientation mindset. Moreover, this ego centric behavior is what sports psychologist call rescinding effort. Rescinding effort is when an athlete seeks to protect their ego by intentionally not giving their best effort. These athletes do this so they can […]
One of my primary sources of research for mental toughness comes from sport psychologists Sheldon Hanton, Graham Jones, and Declan Connaughton. The title of their research is “A Framework of Mental Toughness in the World’s Best Performers“. The authors do an excellent job putting rigor around the definition of mental toughness. Their analysis concludes that […]