How Athletes Think

By Madhuli Kulkarni

In How Athletes Think, an audio course from Scribd Coach, sports and performance psychologist Madhuli Kulkarni helps listeners better understand their minds so they can be effective players in any game — both literal and figurative. Drawing from her extensive academic and professional experience, Kulkarni offers an overview of the psychology of sports, explores focus as the key to success, discusses how you can define success and failure for yourself, and much more. She also shares exercises and techniques so you can begin applying the lessons of sports psychology right away.

If you’re interested in leveling up your performance, in any domain of your life, it may help to think like an athlete. Madhuli Kulkarni can explain how.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribd Coach
• Release date: Jul 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781094445458

Madhuli Kulkarni

Madhuli Kulkarni is a sports and performance psychologist with over 15 years of experience, and the founder and chief psychologist of Madhuli Kulkarni Academy LLP. She holds three master’s degrees in sports psychology, counseling and psychotherapy, and industrial and organizational psychology, as well as a certificate in sports psychology for athlete development. To learn more about Madhuli Kulkarni and her work, visit her website at MadhuliKulkarni.com, or follow her on Facebook @MadhuliKulkarniAcademy.

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How Athletes Think

HOW ATHLETES THINK

Getting Mentally Fit for Your Best Physical Performance

MADHULI KULKARNI

SCRIBD COACH

Copyright © 2022 by Madhuli Kulkarni

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ISBN: 9781094445458

First e-book edition: June 2022

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Introduction

Hello, and welcome to How Athletes Think: Getting Mentally Fit for Your Best Physical Performance, a course by Scribd Coach. My name is Madhuli Kulkarni.

Resiliency, the power to bounce back from any adversity, is key to an athlete’s mental fitness. Despite all the challenges and hardships, a resilient person tries to stand up again, looking for alternative routes, working on improving, and staying focused. Being mentally fit in this way allows you to push your physical self farther than you knew you could go.

Cricket is a tough mental game that’s full of uncertainty and uncontrollable variables. Who will bat first and who will ball first is decided by a toss. Unless you’re an opening batsman, you don’t know when you will go to bat. If you’re a fielder, you might be in the hot sun for nearly an hour without the ball coming your way, but when it does, you have to be alert enough to make the catch.

The fact that you don’t know what will happen in the next minute makes cricket an exciting game to both play and watch. But before you can play, you need to understand the psychology behind the game.

Your mind is the architect that prepares the blueprint for your performance, and your body executes that plan. If your blueprint is flawed, your execution will be also.

You are what your mind is. If your mind is confused, you are confused. If your mind is anxious, you are anxious. If your mind is focused, you are focused.

To understand the function of our minds, I’ll divide it into two parts: your conscious mind (or outer mind) and your subconscious mind (or inner mind).

Your conscious mind takes in all of the experiences of

Reviews for How Athletes Think

[Janinah · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Very wishy washy and full of cliche anecdotes. Not worth reading at all.