Autore: TheCoach

In sport as in life there are times when we don’t deliver our best when called on to do so. At the elite level, a poor performance in sport is when you or your team are 1% off your best. This contributes to an unwanted result combined with the feeling of letting yourself or others down. It is important […]

Perfectionism has been the most widely studied personality characteristic in sport and exercise psychology over the past decade. Perfectionism is a personality style characterized by setting extremely high standards of performance, striving for flawlessness, and a tendency to be overly critical in evaluating one’s performance (Flett & Hewitt, 2005). Investigators have differentiated between self- oriented […]

A persistent question that has been asked over the years is, To what extent does competitive sport participation help individuals prepare for life? The following is a summary of the results from studies investigating various aspects of this question (Coakley, 1997): • Sport participation and academic achievement. Studies have shown in general that varsity athletes […]

Gli errori cognitivi – L’errore di rinforzo delle scelte La scelta sarà sempre giusta… dopo! quasi! Conoscere alcune procedure cognitive aiuta a prendere decisioni migliori Errore di rinforzo delle scelte. Con questo si intende la tendenza a ricordare le proprie scelte come migliori di quello che sono state realmente, attribuendo o amplificando gli elementi positivi delle opzioni che abbiamo scelto […]

L’analisi e la misura del carico mentale E’ più facile riconoscere la sintomatologia legata all’affaticamento fisico, che non quella legata alla fatica mentale da sovraccarico, considerata come una reazione complessa associata all’incapacità individuale di elaborare le informazioni complesse provenienti dalla situazione , oltre che una reazione associata a fattori organizzativi, tecnologici e culturali propri del […]

What You Can Learn From a Woman POW About Grit and Resilience Shannon H. Polson Brigadier General Rhonda Cornum Ifirst saw Dr. Rhonda Cornum speak at a Triangle Securities Conference in the North Carolina Research Triangle Park while I was still a cadet in 1993. I vividly recall a general officer at the conference expressing […]