Summer is a Great Time to Watch Ski Racing Video
Watching videos of yourself and World Cup racers is a valuable tool for improving technique and tactics, getting inspired, and increasing motivation, confidence, and focus. If you’re like most racers, you use it a lot during the winter as part of your training. Video enables you to more clearly understand and see what you need […]
Read MoreChildren Become the Messages They Get the Most
I was recently interviewed by the Naples Herald (FL) on my third parenting book, Your Children are Listening: Nine Messages They Need to Hear from You. The interview focuses on one of my most basic ideas in parenting: Your children become the messages they get the most. In other words, the messages they get from you (most […]
Read MoreIs Coding Camp a Good Thing? Answer: Not to Me
One of the booming trends in the ‘youth-achievement-industrial complex’ is computer coding camps (and after-school coding programs). Here is an article in which I was interviewed that discusses this new, and to me, troubling development. I think this trend is driven by two unhealthy forces. First, economic uncertainty that has created immense anxiety in parents for their children’s futures. […]
Read MoreInterview on Tackling College Sports-Psychology of Sport
I was recently interviewed by Tackling College Sports on a wide range of topics related to sport psychology. You can listen to it here (scroll to bottom) .
Read More5 Things I Hate to See Racers Do in Training
I’ve been in the ski racing world since I was six years old. The first 20 years, I was a racer learning the ups and downs of ski racing the hard way, mostly through trial and error, and sometimes painful failure. That, I can say with 20/20 hindsight and absolute certainty, is no way to […]
Read MoreTaylor Publishes Latest Book: Dance Psychology
I’m pleased to announce the publication by Human Kinetics of my latest book: Dance Psychology for Artistic and Performance Excellence (co-authored with Dr. Elena Estanol). This is a follow-up to my first-ever 1995 book, Psychology of Dance, which I wrote with my late mother, Ceci Taylor. For those not familiar with my work in dance, I have […]
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