PSYC 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: General Idea, Serena Williams, Negative Energy
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Being able to stay strong in any situation, focus, concentration, compartmentalizing (thinking about what you"re doing now and separating it from anything else), endurance (physical and cognitive), being able to bounce back from a bad game/bad match. People had a general idea of what it was- i"ll know it when i see it basis. You can train someone to be physically t, but if they"re not mentally t, then they will always be at a disadvantage. Sports is a huge mover in terms of nances// billions of dollars for professional sports and college sports// millions of dollars in terms of college scholarships. Very modern/new eld: work is not very re ned (not a lot of history compared to other elds of psychology) Coach has a talk: it"s important to prepare your body and go to practice/do more work// most coaches consider sport to be 50% mental preparation.
