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Motivation

Much more about motivation in later posts, but I came across this nugget today from a July 2009 article in Nature by Kielan Yarrow: “…the big question in sport is

Vikings

I was watching my beloved Minnesota Vikings blow another chance to go to the Super Bowl last night. I found myself contorted, snarling and gasping as the game progressed and

Practice

If you’re over the age of 10, then you probably are, like me, a bit depressed by the recent popular revelations that it takes 10,000 hours to achieve mastery. 10,000

Stories

To make sense of the world, we constantly tell ourselves stories. It’s the voice in our head, the chattering that goes on almost all the time as a running commentary:

Beginning

This is an offering of thoughts on the science and psychology of elite human performance. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a professional tennis player; I was

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