Author interview with Sonia Choquette
03:15 min
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I was told that I should receive an appointment in about six to eight weeks, but my gut was telling me that something wasn’t right, so I decided I wanted to get it investigated sooner than that.
“Never stop asking. Stay on those doctors. If you feel something is wrong and your doctor isn’t doing something, go to someone else.”
I now realize that a framed piece of paper saying that someone is a doctor will never trump a gut intuition.
In Mind Gym, noted sports psychology consultant Gary Mack explains how your mind influences your performance on the field or on the court as much as your physical skill does, if not more so.
Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.
What we call ‘mastery’ can be defined as that mysterious process through which what is at first difficult or even impossible becomes easy and pleasurable through diligent, patient, long-term practice.
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Resolve to do the things you find to be difficult. That’s what confident people do. They tackle those things that are scary and they get addicted to doing it.
It's not that I'm blind to life's fragility or the dangers around me. It's just that I possess a gift offered by many mistake-filled years: At my age, I have a pretty good idea what and whom to trust.
Still clinging to the fears and fury of childhood? You can unarrest your development once and for all.