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April 22, 2004
He Ain't Crazy, He's a Champion
Posted by Nick
He're's an interesting piece on the use of psychology to improve sports performance:
The strategy of self-talk has been used by cognitive therapists to treat mental disorders. Their research has shown a remarkable success rate with this approach. Sport psychologists borrowed the technology from them, improving sports performance with equally remarkable success. Self-talk is a factor that a person controls himself, improving performance in sports through control and manipulation of such talk.
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