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It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
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“Physical fitness determines where the wall that represents your physical limit is placed. Mental fitness determines how close you are able to get to… — Fitzgerald Matt Copy Share Image
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“Well-trained athletes have an easier time achieving flow because they are less physically self-conscious.” — Fitzgerald Matt Copy Share Image
“Self-belief cannot be manufactured through obsessive yearning toward one’s goals or through the elimination of all “distractions.” In fact, it requires the opposite: an… — Fitzgerald Matt Copy Share Image
“This coping skill is essentially a protective reaction against threats to the ego. Neuropsychologists have identified the ventral anterior cingulate cortex and the medial… — Fitzgerald Matt Copy Share Image
“Neuroscientists have observed that several changes in brain function tend to accompany the flow state. The brain’s electrical activity always unfolds in wave patterns.… — Fitzgerald Matt Copy Share Image
“There is no experience quite like that of driving yourself to the point of wanting to give up and then not giving up. In” — Fitzgerald Matt Copy Share Image
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“The most successful endurance athletes over the age of 40 are so similar in personality it’s almost uncanny. What we see in all of… — Fitzgerald Matt Copy Share Image
“Any athlete who experienced race-level effort completely out of context would instantly regain full respect for its awfulness. If a runner were to suddenly… — Fitzgerald Matt Copy Share Image
“The scientific name for this pacing mechanism is anticipatory regulation. Its output is a continuously refreshed, intuition-like feeling for how to adjust one’s effort… — Fitzgerald Matt Copy Share Image
“Sian Beilock, a psychologist and leading expert on choking, defined the phenomenon in her book Choke as “poor performance that occurs in response to… — Fitzgerald Matt Copy Share Image
