Arianna Huffington once said that failure is merely a stepping stone to success. Thomas Edison found 10,000 ways to not make a light-bulb. In no small part, it’s why every athlete from Michael Jordan to Tom Daley have bounced back from setbacks. Yet, learning from failure is no mean feat. It requires guts, determination…
As the saying goes ‘we learn from our mistakes’. Embracing failure is the reason why parents let their children fall down and get back up when they’re learning how to walk. It’s the reason why students re-sit exams, and it’s the reason why sports athletes have comebacks after major defeats. So important is failure…
It might be the buzzword of recent times, but the term ‘growth mindset’ very much deserves its time in the spotlight. For those unfamiliar with it, growth mindset has been referred to as viewing intelligence as fluid, rather than inherent. It’s a view widely shared in sports psychology with the belief that we all…
Keeping a positive mental attitude is a crucial part of being an athlete. Talent aside, a key strength that any sports person needs in their athletic training programme is; the ability to deal with winning and losing, pressure in a competitive environment, and coming back from injury. In short; you’re going to need to…
We’ve all heard the saying ‘you are what you eat’; so, when it comes to children, a healthy balanced diet is essential for learning and development. With more pressure on children than ever before to outperform in exams, and with greater competition to get in to further education, it’s important to support your child’s…