Dr James Vaughan on Culture, Praise Addiction, and Developing Skilled Performers
The Athlete Development Show
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The Generational Change in Parenting
I think the need to be more intentional about what we're doing and how we are bringing our kids up into the world. I ended up in a position playing football whereby I was just playing for praise so if you praise me for something I would do it sure which really then just limited me as a player. When that praise dried up well there was no real internal self confidence or feeling of I am good at things internally everything positive was externally referenced by what other people told me. That's an element of parenting today that I'm really trying to push back against and I've been lucky enough to spend a bit of time with Stephen Rolnick who's given me introduction to my motivational
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