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Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Lee Brooks — 2 Comments

choke [verb] (in sports): To fail to perform at a crucial point of a game or contest as a result of nervousness In Part III (“Mind-Set for Success”) of Mind Gym, there’s a chapter called Breathe and Focus that discusses choking in the context of…

Tagged with: Bounce, choking, explicit memory, Gary Mack, Greg Norman, implicit memory, Lou Piniella, Matthew Syed, Mind Gym, performance curve, physiology, Sian Beilock, Steve Davis, The Sports Gene
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Applying sports psychology: fun with penalty kicks

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Lee Brooks — 1 Comment

In addition to leadership and marketing literature, I devote a fair bit of time to reading about peak performance and the psychology of decision-making. Readers of this site know that I’m also a big fan and avid player of soccer.…

Tagged with: Andrew Anthony, Bounce, hydrocut, Mind Gym, performance, PKs, shoot-outs, Sian Beilock, sports psychology, sports science, Sweet Street, The Sports Gene, Tim Krul, visualization
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Book Report: The Sports Gene

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Lee Brooks — 3 Comments

“The broad truth is that nature and nurture are so interlaced in any realm of athletic performance that the answer is always: it’s both. But that is not a satisfactory endpoint in science. Scientists must ask, ‘How, specifically, might nature…

Tagged with: Aaron Lennon, Charles Darwen, Chris Rock, Chrissie Wellington, David Epstein, Donald Dhomas, epigenetics, expertise, Gareth Bale, Jennie Finch, Jermain Defoe, Jesper L Andersen, Jose Reyes, Kalenjin, Paavo Nurmi, performance, Sian Beilock, sports science, The Sports Gene, Theo Walcott, Usain Bolt
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Book Report: “Bounce”

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Lee Brooks — 12 Comments

“The talent theory of expertise is not merely flawed in theory; it is insidious in practice, robbing individuals and institutions of the motivation to change themselves and society. Even if we can’t bring ourselves to embrace the idea that expertise…

Tagged with: Anders Ericcson, Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Bounce, Carol Dweck, David Beckham, Desmond Douglas, excellence, expertise, futsal, Greg Norman, Heidi Krieger, Laszlo Polgar, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Schwarzer, Martin Sheen, Matthew Syed, Mia Hamm, Mozart, Nick Faldo, Outliers, placebo, purposeful practice, Roger Federer, self-development, Shaquille O'Neal, Sian Beilock, Steve Davis, talent, Tiger Woods, Venus Williams, Wayne Gretzky
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Sports

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