Super Humans or Human Plus Athletes Can Will Events to Occur - Now I Have Proof of That

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

I've always believed that one can will events to occur in sports and competition, and that the strongest and most agile mind are forces to be reckoned with. They say you must believe to achieve, and that having a winning attitude makes all the difference. I think inherently we all know this, but now there seems to be some folks putting real empirical evidence to the concept, a winning concept, if you ask me. Okay so, let's talk about this shall we?

There was an interesting article in New Scientist titled; "Smart Guide to 2012: How to win at the Olympics," which was published on December 27, 2011 which stated that most Olympic athletes will already have the optimal gene set, training, and diets to compete, however, with such a leveled playing field, it is the mental horsepower which will make the difference. The article stated;

"It's only in the last decade or so that psychological training has been recognised as equally important to sporting success as the physical side. The psychologist to the British Olympic team runs twice-monthly sessions for athletes in the final year of the run-up to the Olympics. A pair of psychologists in Israel implement a 4-yr. program of psychological training with their athletes, which starts as soon as the last games finish."

Now then, yes, indeed hats off to these psychologists, but I would submit to you that over 60-years ago Maxwell Maltz in his book "Psycho-Cybernetics" explained all this. And as a former high-level athlete myself once upon a time, I can tell you that the strength of character and will is what sets apart the winner from the losers or 'also rans' - in fact, the difference in attitude and belief is so important that even a genetically inferior athlete can compete and win if they are in the right mind-set. How do you think I know this?

It is not my intention to take anything away from the PR or research of these Israeli sports psychologists, after all, they are merely attempting to put their research into action, and help athletes reach their full potential and realize their dreams, while making a little money for themselves - it's just that - really, I thought everyone competing at this high-level already knew all that. For someone who has competed, I've experienced it and hardly need a bunch of sports psychologists to secure a write up in a psychology journal to convince me. Indeed, I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on the Future of Sports. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/