Stephen McIvor

People sometimes confuse that with multiple personalities.

We don't.

We have pretty much one, most of us.

But it's multiple identities.

And how we see ourselves is really important.

When we walk into the changing room as an athlete...

into the classroom as a student, into the home as a child or as a mother or as a father.

So it's how we migrate those changes and those different environments that really impact us and how we should act in those certain times.

Massively so.

And this is the problem when people are becoming so fascinated with sport or with acclaim, even in music, stars, actors.

If we are confined to that one identity, then all our eggs in the one basket.

And that's pretty stressful and worrying about, well, will I get my next role or my next job?

Will I win the next tournament?

And that's hanging behind a lot of athletes' minds as they push through.

The Institute of Sport in Ireland is doing some great work in terms of identity and Owen Rynish out there with Phil Moore in terms of getting athletes to see themselves as more.

Taking the skill set that they've taken from goal setting, focus, etc., but absolutely seeing themselves as more than just a runner, a rugby player, a tennis player.

She might.

And if she's going back to win that Grand Slam for the acclaim for that extrinsic, if she's going back to stretch herself, to stretch

to show that at 44, which is amazing, she's still the strong woman mentally, physically that she was, and that she's fully invested in playing the actual game for herself, to stretch herself, rather than doing it for somebody else.

That's the danger.