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The Key to a Well-Lived Life: Lighten Up!

By Elizabeth Gilbert — 2010

Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed shares the key to a well-lived life.

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The Gender Equality Debate: A Boost for Women in Sport

If you’re familiar with us at Athlete Assessments, you might know we’re big believers in gender equality and are passionate about equal rights, equal pay, equal opportunity, and equal recognition, not only for female athletes, but for women in general.

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Rebekah Box
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How Olympians Are Fighting to Put Athletes’ Mental Health First

More athletes are reporting mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, psychiatric conditions and eating disorders.

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Alice Park
2021
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Manipulating the Paradox of Perfectionism: Promoting Healthy Perfectionism in Sport

Elite athletes are known for their exceptional physiology. Arguably, their superior strength, power, endurance and biomechanics all play a key role in enabling their success.

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Justine Anthony
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How Perfectionism Affects Athletes’ Performance After Competitive Failure

Elite athletes are more likely to rise to the occasion after a failure if they keep potential unhelpful consequences of striving for perfection in check, according to a University of Alberta study, the first of its kind to investigate perfectionism and performance following failure in competitive...

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Michael Brown
2020
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Perfectionism: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Adam Nicholls explains the upsides and downsides of perfectionism in sport, and how to manage perfectionism to maximise performance.

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Adam Nicholls
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How Perfectionism Can Hurt Athletes Self-Confidence

Perfectionists demand a lot from themselves about the quality of their performance. They have high expectations. This can lead to self-doubt when these athletes do not perform up to their high standards.

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Patrick Cohn
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How to Deal with “Self-Pressure” (for High Achievers)

If you are a high performer or hold yourself to a high standard, you have no doubt had to deal with times where you “felt” the pressure was too much.

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Misfit Entrepreneur
2018
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Why You Have the Fear of Failure (and How to Overcome It)

Insecurity about doing things incorrectly causes many people to unconsciously sabotage their chances for success.

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Leon Ho
2021
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7 Important Lessons You Can Learn From Failure

Experiencing failure can teach you lessons that you wouldn’t have learned otherwise—you can learn from failure.

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Martin Lünendonk
2020
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