I’ve always believed that a single can will events to happen in sports and competition, and that the strongest and most agile mind are forces to be reckoned with. They say you ought to believe to achieve, and that having a winning attitude makes all the distinction. I assume inherently we all know this, but now there seems to be some folks placing genuine empirical evidence to the idea, a winning idea, if you ask me. Okay so, let’s speak about this shall we?

There was an intriguing write-up in New Scientist titled “Wise Guide to 2012: How to win at the Olympics,” which was published on December 27, 2011 which stated that most Olympic athletes will already have the optimal gene set, instruction, and diets to compete, even so, with such a leveled playing field, it is the mental horsepower which will make the distinction. The article stated

“It’s only in the last decade or so that psychological instruction has been recognised as equally important to sporting good results as the physical side. The psychologist to the British Olympic team runs twice-monthly sessions for athletes in the final year of the run-up to the Olympics. A pair of psychologists in Israel implement a 4-yr. system of psychological instruction with their athletes, which begins as soon as the final games finish.”

Now then, yes, indeed hats off to these psychologists, but I would submit to you that over 60-years ago Maxwell Maltz in his book “Psycho-Cybernetics” explained all this. And as a former high-level athlete myself when upon a time, I can tell you that the strength of character and will is what sets apart the winner from the losers or ‘also rans’ – in reality, the distinction in attitude and belief is so essential that even a genetically inferior athlete can compete and win if they are in the proper mind-set. How do you feel I know this?

It is not my intention to take anything away from the PR or investigation of these Israeli sports psychologists, following all, they are merely attempting to put their study into action, and aid athletes reach their full prospective and understand their dreams, although creating a little cash for themselves – it is just that – actually, I thought everybody competing at this high-level already knew all that. For somebody who has competed, I’ve skilled it and hardly need to have a bunch of sports psychologists to secure a write up in a psychology journal to convince me. Indeed, I hope you will please take into account all this and assume on it.