How is it that top level athletes can change their sport and still be successful? Is sport about skill or is it attitude?
To be successful at a sport one has to have an aptitude to the sport and a plan of how to get there …. training regimes, mentors/coaches, mental strength, understanding of the hours to put in. Once the athlete has chosen a plan it is then about commitment – and probably commitment to listening, taking advice and going with it – immersing.
What probably stops many people from achieving big goals is possibly the fear of failure and so a lack of commitment to the “plan”. If one doubts the plan – one will search around for better options/ideas/other methods/fall backs and in doing this one does not ever fully commit to the original plan and wastes a lot of time.
Look at Victoria Pendleton’s journey:
For a start a similar action or stance is needed in the sport of road bike racing and horse racing – ability to cope and think at speed – ability to concentrate and be single minded and commit to the race. But then it comes to coaching and listening.
This lady had not ridden a horse of note before 12 months ago.
So how much of success is in fact diving in head first and getting the mind set right.
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