Professor Ian Robertson
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You see, that's a very mature and healthy and I think a positive way to approach sporting performance.
There's always going to be someone better than you, which means you have to build a self-esteem and evaluation of yourself.
You have to base that on many other things.
And professionalism is a lovely way of capturing that.
on getting the pride of doing things well, the pride of working hard, the pride of persisting through failure, the pride of being a good sportsperson.
you need to have intermediate goals.
And that's what professionalism gives you, which is why that Nikki McCrae comment is so important.
And she famously bombed out of that terribly.
It was a kind of
It felt like a humiliation for it.
It was a huge disappointment for the country and the expectations just collapsed in the face of reality.
How did she cope with that great, not just personal sense of failure, but public humiliation?
And she said her goals completely changed.
She just forgot about Olympic medals.
And she built her way back until eventually she just missed a gold medal in the Sydney Olympics and got a silver medal.
The winner effect is we're all fighting for dominance hierarchies and there's always contests.
And just winning a tiny contest just boosts your chances to win the next one, and it's cumulative, and it's compound interest.
And it changes your brain in ways to make you more likely to win in the future.
He put in things like body weight, testosterone levels, group size, but he never managed to find stable hierarchies until he hit on one variable to put into the equation.
And that was, if you won a contest, a small contest, then your statistical chances of winning a subsequent contest were slightly increased.
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