Dr James Vaughan on Culture, Praise Addiction, and Developing Skilled Performers
The Athlete Development Show
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How to Affirm Yourself in a Child's Life
"I really have to be intentional when it has to be a practice and I'm getting better at it but it's just as you say so foreign the funniest thing to how the rest of the world looks yeah it is" "If you could start with kids long enough and you could shape a culture around it I think it would work. But for us it was it was so alien and I would do it and it's a you look at me with a face like come on," he says. 'It almost didn't hit the same sweet spot in terms of the dopamine or whatever we get because we've been socialized to to want praise'
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