Counterpoint: Winners Don’t Always Win

Winners win and losers lose. This is straightforward logic. However, reality is not that straightforward. The reality is that winners don’t always win and losers don’t always lose. Case in point is when a person with a long term mindset competes against someone with a short term mindset. Unfortunately, there is little to no chance […]

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The Pathway from the Strategic Mindset to Becoming an Elite Athlete

As a writer who loves to write about research, I get a tremendous amount of satisfaction in moments when I identify a connection between different areas of research. Indeed, today is one of those moments. The last few days I’ve been writing about recently released research from Patricia Chen on the strategic mindset. In short, […]

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7 Questions Those with a Strategic Mindset Use to Improve Performance

A couple days ago I wrote about a new research study analyzing the strategic mindset. The research is from a group led by Patricia Chen, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social psychology at the National University of Singapore. Notably, the research group includes contributions from Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., who many regard as the preeminent […]

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