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Mind over Matter, Arsenal, Arteta, and the Kronkes – from LA to London
It’s a dark evening in December and I’m running under a light rain listening to a Tim Ferris podcast episode about high-performance psychology in sports teams. This guy Michael Gervais talks about his experience as a psychologist with an NFL team – Seattle Seahawks – and the process they went through to transform this team’s…
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Mental Toughness vs Resilience
You always hear the words mental toughness and mental resilience, sometimes with different tastes, but it feels like they are connected. It feels like these words are two faces of the same coin, but is it? Delving deep into my weird self I decided to look it up and what I found fascinated me, but…
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2nd step toward mental toughness: Understand your emotions
I’m reading a book called ‘The mental toughness handbook’ by Damon Zahariades and summarizing my findings on the way. This is my 2nd post on the book – check the first post if you’re new. After we started understanding the threats to be mentally tough, we move to dissect our emotions and how they affect…
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8 common threats to being mentally tough
I’m reading a book called ‘The mental toughness handbook’ by Damon Zahariades who writes the blog http://www.ArtOfProductivity.com I decided to share the journey of reading this book with you. I’m at a stage in my life where I’m reflecting on a tough period of my life where I was mentally drained and couldn’t respond properly…
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Define yourself by defining success
What is success to us as humans? When I was a kid I thought success was being able to flick a football on your foot without it falling down. Then as I grew up it seemed that success was career-driven, like starting a company or being a writer or an artist or even a professional…
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How to live a life of value?
I always thought about how to have a more meaningful life, and today I’m trying to ask myself some questions to try and understand myself better. What does it even mean to live a life of value? Is it a life of sacrifice? A life where everything you do, everything you earn, and everything you…
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I created my own logo
I wanted to start a blog, what’s the first thing I do to avoid writing? create a logo. It is silly but somehow this turned out to be my first post here. Another episode of creative procrastination. Creating your own logo is not so hard, if you feel like trying you just need to use…
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A man without a purpose .. almost
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