For those who lack confidence, it’s critical to understand why confidence is a habit. The reason why is that when one accepts that confidence is a habit, they also accept that lacking confidence is also a habit. Moreover, it’s more difficult to break habits than it is to start habits. Therefore, the best way to […]
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 […]
Some mindset coaches teach that you must eliminate the little voice in your head that raises self-doubt. The thinking is that this little voice of self-doubt amounts to negative self-talk, which ultimately leads to negative outcomes. While it’s true that negative self-talk contributes to negative outcomes, it’s not a fact that the voice of self-doubt […]