Dr. Jim Taylor’s Blog
Welcome to Dr. Jim Taylor’s blog! Its goal is to inspire, inform, and transform with ideas, perspectives, insights, and tools that can change your thinking, your performances, and your life.
1409, 2021
How to Ride the Triathlon Emotional Rollercoaster
One of the things I love most about being a triathlete is the range and intensity of emotions our sport [...]
709, 2021
What’s in Your Emotional Chamber of Pain? (Part I)
My experience, both professionally and personally, is that few people emerge from childhood unscathed from their upbringings. You get your [...]
609, 2021
Taylor Interview about the Psychology of Ski Racing
I was recently interviewed by Parker Biele for the Sync Performance podcast, This Week's Stoke. In the podcast, I share [...]
3108, 2021
Inside the Tri-Mind: Help! I’m Stuck in a Slump and I Can’t Get Out
Performance slumps are one of the most common, yet mysterious and frustrating, phenomena in triathlon. Typically viewed as unexplained drops [...]
2308, 2021
3 Essential Human Freedoms
With the U.S. and the world continuing to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, the sad developments in Afghanistan, and the current [...]