Mindsets of Competitive Success: Perfectionism

Today we have reached the third and final mindset for competitive success: perfectionism. Before go into perfectionism, I wanted to do a short recap of the other two mindsets. First, we went over mastery. This was the mindset of simply wanting to have exceptional skills or knowledge in an area. It was not necessarily wanting

Mindsets of Competitive Success: Bestism

Last week we talked about the mastery mindset. This week we move forward into the next mindset, bestism. Whereas mastery is the mindset of simply having exceptional skill or top percentile knowledge in an area, bestism takes it a step further. If you remember from the first post in this series when we overviewed the

Mindsets of Competitive Success: Mastery

I want to start off with the most basic of the three competitive mindsets that we mentioned last week: Mastery. When we first hear the word “mastery” we often think of someone who does something better than everyone else. However, that is not the case. In the sense that we are talking about mastery, the

Mastery Vs Bestism Vs Perfectionism

I was recently studying about mastery. It got me thinking about the differences between perfectionism and mastery. The question of perfectionism then came up in conversation with a friend and it got me thinking about whether perfectionism is always perfectionism. While processing this, I thought of the term “bestism”. This is kind of a middle

Why Sports Psychology?

Sports psychology has been a hit or miss topic for many years. It is something that we know about and are aware of regularly, and at the same time it is a topic that many people have scoffed at. Coaches look for mental fortitude and that “it” mentality. When an athlete starts to play poorly,