Recently I was having a virtual meeting with a friend, Dio Saucedo. Dio holds a PhD in Educational Psychology and regularly works with professional athletes to improve their performances.

One vignette Dio shared was as follows…

During a coaching session asked his athlete clients to consider how much time each day they spent on improving their physical performance. For example, for baseball players, improving the batting.

Then he asked the clients how much time they spent on improving the mental performance. He suggested several time options but in the end, the athletes agreed the amount of time spend on mental performance improvement, was just 3 minutes.

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