Arianna Huffington once said that failure is merely a stepping stone to success. Thomas Edison found 10,000 ways to not make a light-bulb. In no small part, it’s why every athlete from Michael Jordan to Tom Daley have bounced back from setbacks. Yet, learning from failure is no mean feat. It requires guts, determination…
In applied sports psychology, the area of debriefing is given due consideration. The process of reflecting back is said to help with understanding, as well as aid psychological recovery – but only when conducted in an efficient and effective way. Debriefing helps athletes to divert their attention from past events and also to build…
As the saying goes ‘we learn from our mistakes’. Embracing failure is the reason why parents let their children fall down and get back up when they’re learning how to walk. It’s the reason why students re-sit exams, and it’s the reason why sports athletes have comebacks after major defeats. So important is failure…