Most people struggle to understand the difference between an athlete that is a star and one that is a super star basketball player. In an NCAA March Madness pre-game telecast, the panel was breaking down the impact that Michigan State’s Draymond Green has had on the men’s basketball program. MSU head coach, Tom Izzo, said …
Mental mistakes. If you want to minimize them, then take these two phrases out of your vocab: IT’s – “I’m tired” DFLI’s – “I don’t feel like it.” If you do, I’d argue that you will have essentially removed over 50% of the negative mental habits you’ll face as a high performance athlete. Those two …
This video is a fantastic extension to all the discussion that came out of my previous post on mental toughness (see ‘Unfairness: The Missing Ingredient in the Debate on Toughness‘). This is actual footage shot at an in-class session from PGC Basketball… [I never get tired of listening to “Coach D” talk!]. /sef.
I should say… Good to be grounded and at home – at least for a little while. These past few months have come and gone at a blistering pace and were chalk full of travel. I am happy to report that it was all in the name of basketball. (Yes!) Being back at home allows …
I was just asked yesterday to give some thought to the notion of mental toughness. That is, what is it and how do I define it? Beyond that, how do you develop it? Here are some of my thoughts on how I have defined mental toughness to this point. Much of this is an accumulation …