Locus of Control: Another Overlooked Legal Performance Enhancer

Several months back I made the point that not all performance enhancers are illegal. For example, self-motivation is a phenomenal legal performance enhancer that can separate an athlete from the competition. Along these same lines, another legal performance enhancer one should not overlook is locus of control. Locus of control is a term to describe […]

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The Most Important Difference Between Optimist and Pessimist

Most people boil down optimism to thinking positive and pessimism to thinking negative. While this explanation does have a sliver of truth, it doesn’t provide a true picture of the most important difference between these two mindsets. Optimist don’t always think positive and pessimist don’t always think negative. However, what optimist do differently than pessimist […]

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Three Questions to Help You Evaluate Negative Feedback

Negative feedback is always difficult to swallow in the moment. My rule of thumb is to never respond to the feedback with anything other than open ears. While it’s true that not all negative feedback is useful and may require you to take it with a grain of salt, it’s still not useful to debate […]

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