The president’s remarks at Pearl Harbor sound very much like the ones sport psychologists use to help athletes perform at their best.
Daniel Murphy of the New York Mets is offering baseball fans a glimpse of a player performing in “the Zone.”
No matter what their business, the executives on “Undercover Boss” are looking for great attitudes.
U.S. Open golfers are already complaining about the Chambers Bay course. Umm, should it be easy?
Let’s play a quick little game. How many times does the letter ‘f’ appear in the following sentence? “Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of many years.” Did you count correctly? Many people do not. Many people see three. The correct answer comes below. This simple test […]
Genius is accessible to anyone. It’s nothing more than asking the right question and spending the rest of your life trying to find the answer.
You can be sure that snow-weary New Englanders do not want to hear that others have had it worse. But it’s true. Roald Amundsen not only endured harsher conditions, he pursued them. Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, became the first person to lead a successful journey to the South Pole. In doing so, he showed us […]
At its core, doing the impossible is a choice. A loser says, “It may be possible, but it’s too difficult.” A winner says, “It may be difficult, but it’s possible.”
The lesson Lou Holtz learned in his very first game as a head college football coach. You can only coach one team — yours.
Real toughness isn’t throwing fists or getting in someone’s face. Real toughness is absorbing negative feedback, stepping back from its sting, and re-examing it for ways to improve.