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The Champion's Mind: How Great Athletes Think, Train, and Thrive: A review

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Review 1: The Champions Mind Thomas Regan PsychElite Performance 15/10/2017  My Mistakes Where Made For You Ever since I could remember, I hated reading books and would quit half way through them because I got bored very quickly. Fiction books just do nothing for me and I think its because I have a really bad imagination. Even though my Mum's side of the family loves reading (they would read a book every week or two), I never really had their passion of reading books. When I was a kid, I used to read the same Roald Dahl book because they were easy (very fixed mindset) and when I got to secondary school I remember not being interested in reading along with the other kids in class. One time I even fell asleep in a GCSE literature class reading Frankenstein. As I got to university, I had to read allot of journals and academic books related to my studies to help my academic knowledge. Again, more of an extrinsic motivation to get better grades rather than reading i

Goal Setting for athletes

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Direction PsychElite Performance Thomas Regan 5/10/2017 As I sit here, watching the PGA tour at St. Andrews, it has reminded of a young golfer, called Justin Thomas, 24, showing us all of his 2016-2017 goals after winning the FedEx Cup. He set his goals at the beginning of the year (February 27th 2017) and showed us the goals he completed and did not complete (25th September 2017). The young up and coming golfer clinched the PGA championship, PGA player of the year, the leading money winner on the tour and he clinched 12 of his 15 goals. For a 24-year-old to have goals of winning a major championship in a year and achieving it is truly amazing. But I guess that's how confident Justin is in his abilities.  I bet he will be sitting down with his coach and thinking about new goals for his 2017-2018 season to become an even better golfer. Possibly one making the Ryder Cup team and winning another major but what do I know I lose 10 golf balls a round! Th