Struggling for Excellence

There is a risk, especially if we're talkn about high school athletes, that to try to give them just the good aspects of perfectionism, but not the bad. So i would love to see if we can disentangle this relationship a little bit more and see if it is something that's actually coachable. I would probably even potentially try to recruit athletes who scored high on perfectionism and then just observe them as the control group. But take a sub set of them and actually have a sport psychologist work with them towards pursuing excellence. That seems to generally state that when you push oneself from a very negative place, it often does not improve performance any more than coming at it from