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Archived Blogs
April 24, 2012
Talk on Mental Toughness
On March 27th, I was the guest speaker at the Wellesley Rotary Club in Wellesley, MA and I gave a talk on Mental Toughness – what I think it is and a bit on my own personal journey of discovery in this area. Video of the speech appears below courtesy of Wellesley Media. The video… more »
March 13, 2012
College Tennis and Mental Toughness
I’m spending spring break week with the Connecticut College Men’s and Women’s tennis teams on their journey up and down the east coast, and it’s been a very enjoyable experience thus far. We left New London on Friday afternoon and arrived near Ashland, VA that evening. On Saturday morning, we had a match versus Randolph-Macon… more »
July 5, 2011
Focus on What You Can Control
There was a bit of flack in the Round of 16 match up between Juan Martin del Potro and Rafael Nadal last week at Wimbledon. The center of the controversy was the amount of time that Nadal was taking between points and the injury time out that he took just before the first set tiebreaker. … more »
April 21, 2011
Your Potential
One of the first things that I talk about with a new student or new group is the idea of potential. There is potential for greatness in all of us whether our field is sports, art, music, dance, computer programming, etc. We all want to reach our potential and deep down in our thoughts, we… more »
April 8, 2011
The Point of Competition
What is the point of competition? Conventional wisdom tells us that winning is the end goal of competition, but I think that is debatable and possibly detrimental to performing one’s best. In one of the cornerstone works of Positive Psychology, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi states that the point of competition is to… more »
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