In her preeminent book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. explains that the growth mindset is believing that self-improvement is a product of hard work. Moreover, when you have a growth mindset you also believe that the innate talents you are born with are just the starting point for your development. On the […]
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 […]