Growth mindset - where it all starts
What is it? Growth mindset is a term and idea created by acclaimed Stanford psychologist, Carol Dweck. Her work has been embraced across...
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The sweet spot of skill
Somewhere between freewheeling along at a task, and banging your head against a brick wall, is the optimal level of difficulty to tease...
Learning environment
In so many areas of human development, we are a product of our environment. Scottish coastal golfers tend to be quite handy at playing...
Self control
Letting off steam when the game is getting to you is a perfectly human response, and sometimes necessary to avoid internal combustion. ...
Seek feedback
Linking cause and effect can be difficult on your own, and over time a gap between feel and real can cause what I call "anti-learning". ...
Ask good questions
The curse of excessive explicit instruction in golf is that it creates mental clutter and no self-reliance. One of the joys of coaching...
Awareness
Awareness (or feel) is critical to honing your golf skills. Whilst it can be informed and refined by extrinsic (external) feedback, it...
Self organisation
Watching children develop physical skills is breath-taking. Aside from the lack of ego or pride which allows them to persist in spite of...
Engagement
Few golfers could be accused of not trying. Synonymous with this sport, is the effort and the anguish we put in. However there is...
Attentional focus
Attentional focus is basically what you are concentrating on in any moment. Whether that is your shoulder turn, the pin or nothing, it...
Task clarity
99.9% of the physical skills we learn in our life, like using scissors, hammering a nail, or catching a ball evolved from this simple...
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