Episode #29: What is Mindset? of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast explores the impact of mindset on sports performance.
“Mindset,” is an essential and little addressed contributor to athletic success and a mental area that has only come to light in my work with elite athletes during the past few years. This topic is also where professional and Olympic athletes offer wonderful examples in which they use different mindsets to perform at their highest level consistently.
Let me preface this discussion by clarifying that my use of the word mindset is different from the use of mindset (fixed vs. growth) popularized by the Stanford University researcher Carol Dweck (a perspective, I might add, that can also help athletes achieve their competitive goals).When I talk about mindset, I mean what is going on in your mind in the one to three minutes before you begin a competition. What happens in your mind during that oh-so-important period sets the stage for whether or not you perform to the best of your ability.
To learn more, please listen to Episode #29: What is Mindset? of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast.
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