"Resilience is a dynamic process that is an interaction between the individual and the environment" - a conversation with Mustafa Sarkar
The Talent Equation Podcast
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The Importance of Psychological Trauma in Elite Sport
It's not saying that in order to be elite, you need to have undergone some sort of psychological traumatic experience. But what it's saying is that those who have had those experiences and gone on to be elite have reflected that those experiences may have been valuable in some way towards their elite performance. So no one's actually that happy about this scenario because you've got athletes being pushed extremely hard and elite sport requires some of that. And I know having spent time talking with people within the elite sports environment, that's actually also having a significantly adverse effect on coaches.
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