Mini Book about my Mindset Tips
by Irel CREDIT TO IREL @n0DangerZSS on x
Warning: This Twitlonger is gonna be HUGE! I divided it in chapters, so you can actually read whatever part/s you are interested in the most.
Hallo. Since coaching has been a hot topic lately, even if I disappeared from twitter for a relatively long time, I decided to talk about the role of a mental coach and then I'll explain some essential points which can lead you to have a good mindset. You can find all my sources at the end of this twitlonger.
1. Myths about coaching in general
1) If you are a top player it means you know more than other people.
Nope. People don't need to be top players in order to have a solid understanding of the game, how the brain works and how to handle pressure. Furthermore: top players are used to focus and work on themselves and thus could eventually be a bit harder for them to walk a mile in another man's shoes (not necessarily, but this works in some scenarios, for example soccer legends who weren't successful as coaches)
2) Mental coaching is only for top players.
Nope. The same way coaching related to the game is given to people who simply want to get better, mental coaching is there to help improve all those people who want to train their mindset.
3) Mental coaching is meant only for people who struggle with their mindset.
Neh. Mental coaching is a training tool, it makes your mind the better version of itself. Regarding your game skills, no matter how good you are, you never stop improving, this goes also for your mindset.
4) People are broken and mental coaches will solve their problems for them.
No, no, no. Usually, as humans, we tend by nature to not take responsibility for our actions. It's easier, that's our comfort zone. So, if we have problems we consult specialists hoping they will solve our problems. That's just not the way to go. There is nobody to fix here, nobody is broken. Specialists can guide and give people a key on how to improve their lives, but that's a skill which has to be leveled up. If no effort from people who want to get better is put, then it's just useless. Don't waste your time and money on coaches, then.
As I always say, we don't have the full control on what happens to us, but we have the control on how we react to it. So start to take responsibility for how you react to what's happening in your lives, nobody with a magic wand will come and save you from how you feel.
Mental training, like game training, is a skill, and you have to put effort into it.
5) "She's my coach" - "Aah cute, supportive (girl)/friend!"
I think this is the most common myth I've met. If you are thinking about consulting a person for getting better at your mindset only because they cheer their (boy/girl)/friends up and pass them some water while they are playing, then you are thinking wrong.
Mental coaches are professional figures, they know how the brain works, they read books, scientific papers and have experience with mental coaching. They know what they are doing.
They teach skills. They don't cheer up, at least, not only. So, if you want to engage someone, make sure they are competent in what you are engaging them for.
2. Basics of having a good mindset
Everyone has their own, unique personality. So what can be good for a person, can be not good for another one. Is there an optimal personality which excels in competition?
There is no specific personality excelling, but we can group together some traits and establish what combination is convenient.
Those traits are the ones of the Five-Factor Model, easily remembered making use of the acronym OCEAN:
1) Openness
Being open to new experiences is crucial if a player wants to learn from his surroundings. Players need to be open to listen to others and try new things.
Even the best players need to keep improving with others in order to stay ahead.
2) Conscientiousness
This is how well a person wants to complete his/her task. People with this trait tend to take responsibility for their own performance and work really hard on a task to be well accomplished, for example fixing a habit and setting up a well organized training session routine to optimize their improvement, with realistic goals, etc. . This is an essential trait.
3) Extraversion
Extroverted people tend to bring more energy in the atmosphere. It's easy for them to approach new players and play with different people, which means more experience, while an introverted can be stressed by the single interaction and he/she could also feel a bit awkward while playing. This is not a necessary trait, as it may be in team sports, when some energetic personalities need to be there to take the lead.
4) Agreeableness
Highly agreeable people usually make very good coaches and - in some sports - players as well, because they enjoy working hard to help others, and if you help others, you're going to face a harder challenge and get better. Humans are not static and indeed traits can be treated as states (a state is for example fear, anger, etc., which we feel for a relative short period of time and then we go back to normal). That’s to say, a person can adopt a "traity-state".
For instance, someone who's not agreeable could get agreeable for a certain period of time if someone is being agreeable with them. This gets interesting since they would start to have access to informations which would help them both getting better, and the key would actually be agreeableness! When a player struggles a lot against Samus, I don't have any problems in helping them out. You may think it would infringe upon quiK's personal interests, but the truth is this is a way to push his skills forward and force him to get better earlier, which is better than waiting too long for an opponent to adapt and then working on it later. Agreeable performers are likely to be seen as very professional. If one's goal is to be a coach, this is a necessary trait.
5) Neuroticism
Neurotic people often seek instant gratification. Which means, they are more prone to give up when they don't see an insta-improvement.
This trait is really detrimental for someone who aims to become successful. Objective goal settings are essentials for these people.
2.1 The key of a good mindset is about perspective
First of all it's important to give a definition of "stress". A lot of people use this word without even knowing what it means.
"Stress is the process of adjusting to circumstances, while a stressor is the event or situation to which people must adjust. So a stressor is the thing that happens and stress is how we adjust to it. [...] Stress is our adaptive response to a stressor. While stressors are external, stress is internal. It is mediated by appraisal and stress responses include cognitive, emotional, physical and behavioral aspects. Cognitive stress responses include poor decisions, poor concentration and forgetfulness. Physical stress response is seen in galvanic skin responses (sweat), cardio responses (heart rate), reduced efficiency of the immune system, gastrointestinal and digestive problems, and hormonal activity. [...] Peak daily cortisol levels increase with greater stress, which leads to visible ageing effects." (Sport Psychology: A complete introduction. By John Perry).
So. Our body has cognitive and physical responses to stress. Our heart rate is strongly related to stress. If you noticed that you sweat while playing, now you also know why.
Said that, perspective is definitively THE key factor. We often tend to mistake high arousal with anxiety. When we are in a state of high arousal we have the potential to sharpen our senses, and indeed a lot of athletes use this phase to power up.
But if you perceive high arousal as anxiety, then you miss the chance to perform well. I will return to this topic later, I will explain how it exactly works and what to do in a high arousal situation in order to maintain the focus. Obviously this doesn't apply to sports like Olympic shooting ones, in which performers _must_ have a very low arousal level, since the blood pumping in their fingers can lead to an error. This means they have to fire in between their heart beats, and it's obviously easier when heart rate is low, as the range becomes larger.
So, based upon perspective, Hanin came up with the model of IZOF (Individual Zones of Optimal Functioning).
People with low IZOF reach their "zone" when their arousal is low (i.e. when they are calm).
People with moderate IZOF reach their "zone" when their arousal is something in the between.
People with high IZOF reach their "zone" when their arousal is high (i.e. they feel threatened, angry, etc.)
Studies on soldiers have shown how our body is programmed to sharpen its senses as its heart rate corresponds to the one being in the range between mid and high level of arousal. This means people with low IZOF may want to train themselves in order to get used to higher arousal to aim at a better performance, and so on.
2.2 The importance of feeling confident
A lot of people have a bad mindset. They don't believe in themselves enough to consider mistakes as they should be considered: precious. No one wakes up one morning and is immediately strong, players HAVE to make mistakes if they want to improve. As we already said, Smash -like any other sport - produces stress. People have to adapt and re-adapt, it's a constant stress process, and obviously there is something within us which tells us "Stop playing" whenever we find someone who gives us trouble or whenever we win, because we are afraid to be downloaded, and most of us do actually stop. If something makes us feel uncomfortable, it's easier to stay away from it. This is fear. Fear is the emotion which keeps us away from getting better, you never stop playing because you are happy, you are angry or you are frustrated, you stop playing because you are afraid to face your own mistakes. The question is "Is fear useful in this context?".
No, not really. It only leads to procrastinate and/or overthink. There are people who keep overthinking and overthinking about the game but never actually do something concrete about it (for example, watching their replays/labbing). They think they are putting effort into it, 'cause they overthink so much that they spend a lot of energy. As a result, they feel overwhelmed and end up in a burnout phase.
The truth is, if you see your opponents/your matches as a threat, you will immediately feel fear. Instead, if you see them as a challenge, your perspective changes completely.
"How do I change my perspective?"
The most efficient way to overcome this fear is being confident, believing in yourself, and being absolutely objective.
Our fears are born from experiences we made and still make or things we've read/listened to when we were young. They get stored into the amygdalae, clusters of nuclei located in our limbic system, and then they come out when we find ourselves in the same/similar situations. Studies have shown that amygdalae can change in size depending on the level of stress we are under.
Larger decreases in perceived stress are associated with larger decreases in amygdaloid gray matter density. This means we can get a better control of our emotions through some exercise for our brain. How?
2.3 What is mindfulness and why it works
Mindfulness is simply the practice of paying attention in the present moment. There is nothing mystical or metaphysical about it. That's just it. Anxious people are future-oriented people who take for granted the worst case scenario, that's why it's important for them to keep their mind in the "here and now". As we train ourselves to be focused on the moment, our stress level decreases and, in parallel, our amygdalae shrink. Research has shown that an intensive mindfulness training period of 8 consecutive weeks gives a remarkable outcome.
2.4 The powerful double-edged weapon of the "illusory truth effect"
Tell yourself you are good. There is a thing called "illusory truth effect". The more you say something, the more you believe it, it doesn't matter what you think rationally. You rationally know a cow is not blue, but if you keep repeating yourself out loud "cows are blues" you will end up believing that. We all think literally anyone can get really good at this game with a lot of hard work, which is right. But if you or other people spent your entire smash career telling yourself/you you are not good whenever you made some mistakes, that will be hard. You have to repeat yourself the opposite. Spend about 20 minutes per day telling yourself you are enough, you are good. Remember all the moments you had fun with the game and your character(s). From the moment you just started the game and you were very excited to moments when you had huge satisfactions. Not only in smash but also in life in general. Why is it good to be yourself? Imagine also how you beat someone strong, or something you want to accomplish in life. No need to be realistic, just fill yourself with confidence. If you have no doubt about yourself, the mistakes you make are going to be a challenge for you instead of a threat, and you will be motivated to keep getting better. A person with a poor ego will tend to avoid and overthink about their mistakes, getting defensive in order to protect it. This won't lead to a smooth way to fix them. The same goes for the moments before playing a match. Charge yourself with confidence, it's perfectly fine if you lose against your opponent, but if you don't trust yourself you're gonna lose against yourself first, and then your opponent's level doesn't really matter anymore.
This works also against eventual voices in your head. People sometimes hear some voices telling them "You can't do it, you're gonna lose". After months of practice they'll be totally gone. Just force yourself to cheer yourself up. Be your number one supporter.
Watch out also at your body language. Assume the pose of a champion, walk as a champion, breathe as a champion. Our body and mind are strictly linked. When we are sad we tend to have a sad expression, but studies have confirmed that also the other way around is true: if you stay in a sad pose for a certain time, you'll get sad, while assuming a confident pose will lead to feeling confident.
Do we tend to sleep on our mistakes if we get confident? Nope. Overconfidence lays behind an erroneous belief that once you get strong, you're there, you're done. But even the strongest person needs to improve and learn from their mistakes, think about it. How do you think people improve? Avoiding their mistakes or facing them? A lot of people can't wait to become a top player 'cause they mistakenly think once they are there, they have learnt so much they won't struggle being confident with themselves anymore. But that's actually the opposite. If you barely maintain a mid-level player mindset, how can you expect to handle a top level player one? As a top player you have more pressure, even the best of the best has always a room for improvement, otherwise others will catch them up. Nobody stops to improve. We are human, we are not CPUs, so there's always something we can do better, we are limited as fuck. Only because you are better compared to the rest of the people who play this game this doesn't mean you are done. We are always searching for improvement. I can tell you, if someone keeps doing something they're way better than others at without that challenge to always improve, they will most likely drop it after a while, this goes for EVERY THING in life, we are driven by the desire to improve. So fill yourself with confidence without overthinking, this will help you maintain your will power whenever you face your mistakes.
2.5 Maintaining your focus while you are panicking during a match
A lot of people see pressure as a negative influence during a match and therefore they try to push it away. We can summarize the parts of the brain involved in pressure handling in two main ones: the "red" part (limbic system), responsible for the primary instincts like searching for food, preparing for a fight, escaping etc, and the "blue" one (the neocortex), site of rationality, language, logic, memory, etc. Every information we gain from the external world is first sent to the limbic system and only then to the neocortex (that's why we all perceive it in a different way regardless of our reasoning skills). When we face someone in Smash we feel in danger, since obviously it's a simulation of a fight, that's why the red part of the brain activates sending us impulses of the three states fight/flight/freeze (the previously mentioned amygdalae are responsible for it), so our heart rate speeds up, making our body ready to face a danger. If you try to calm down when you are nervous while you are playing, you are doing the worst thing you could do, since your "red" part is telling you "hey, there is a danger" and you are apparently trying to avoid this message. If you try to ignore it, it will only give you a stronger response and, as a result, it will take precedence over the blue part, as a direct consequence you will forget even the easiest input, and it could even lead you to a blackout.
If a lion is chasing you and your limbic system prepares you to run as fast as possible (flight) since you can't fight him(fight), if you try to use your "blue" part to calm down and stop running, it won't let you do it. If you try harder, then you are basically saying "I want to die", and it will make you unconscious (freeze) to avoid the pain you would eventually feel during death. Your sight starts to fade along with your motor skill and your hearing. The fact is that your limbic system can't actually tell if you are being chased by a lion or you are simply playing a video game, the only thing it knows is you're feeling in danger.
The best thing is to accept you are in danger and cooperate with your red part. There is a method to face this anxiety, which is telling yourself "ok, I am anxious", don't try to eliminate this anxiety, try to keep doing what you are doing while being anxious, just move in it. Start to mention in a low voice something you see, to make your red part understand you are still in control. What color is your character's alt? Answer yourself, find other two things to answer to, for a total of three nominated objects (this will automatically activate your blue part, which is responsible for language). Breathe with your belly and not with your chest, exhale longer compared to how long you inhale, move three parts of your body, like your legs and whatever you can move in that situation. That way you will get back most of the functions of your blue part you previously lost because of your red part. And now you will be able to remember the inputs and the situations you couldn't recognize clearly before.
Why is pressure good? When our body prepares for an extreme situation, we "power up". This state occurs when our heart rate is between 115 and 145 bpm, which could lead you to the flow.
"Normal heart rate is between 60 to 80 BPM. Above 115 BPM fine motor skills begin to deteriorate.
Between 115 and 145 BPM is the optimal range for combat performance, since within this range complex motor skills, visual reaction time, and cognitive reaction time will all be at their highest. Thus an officer with a heart rate between 115 and 145 BPM will have great difficulty writing a report (a fine motor skill), but his mind will be sharp and clear, his reaction time will be at its best, and his close-range shooting skills will still be good.
Above 145 BPM complex motor skills begin to deteriorate, until at 175 BPM gross motor skills (I.e. charging toward or running away from an opponent) are the only actions that can be performed well. It is in this region (above 175 BPM) that the most significant symptoms of SNS activation occur.
Vasoconstriction is at its highest, almost completely shutting down blood flow from surface wounds.
Auditory exclusion usually results in a shutdown of hearing. Tunnel vision occurs, and near vision and depth perception deteriorates. A wide variety of irrational behavior can occur, to include freezing in place and submissive behavior. And voiding of the bladder and bowels can occur as the body redirects energy away from “non essential” muscles such as bladder control and sphincter control. (It should be noted that these effects are from hormonal induced heart rate increases, increases caused by exercise (such as wind sprints) will not have the same impact.)."
3. Improvement takes time and patience
Do you actually know how learning works? Neurons in your brain create a path for that specific thing you are learning, and the more you do it, the more this path is enhanced. Unless you are very young, this is a process that takes a lot of time. Your brain keeps memorizing and processing information, until it fully comprehends and can use it by itself. It involves regular exercises, an optimal sleep structure and also some breaks. This is basically muscle memory (which doesn't necessarily have something to do with muscles). For example, spacing is also about muscle memory. When you first pick a new character, you seem confused, "what's this movement, how can I space properly?", but the more you play it, the more you get its movement till you are able to do whatever you want with it.
But again, it takes a lot of time. Your brain is processing a lot of information, it's memorizing every single movement of that character, in every specific position on the stage, in every stage, and every interaction, with each hitboxes/hurtboxes, against each character in the game. That's also why I never recommend beginners to play more than two characters at the same time. They end up keeping losing 'cause their improvement is slowed down, since their brain is processing too much information, and then they start to lack motivation and end up in an unhealthy spiral.
Something also important to understand is that brain selects some information at once and sticks with it until it "absorbs" it, and then proceeds with other information. This means, you won't notice some mistakes you are making while working on other specific dynamics. Some people think they suck, only because they are getting better and start noticing mistakes they thought they never made, but which indeed they always made, or are a production of the adjustment their brain is trying to make from the moment it started to take into consideration a brand new situation.
4. Have non realistic dreams, set realistic goals
Motivation is another key factor. People need to feel motivated in order to take action. But improvement is a slow process, so how can you keep up your motivation? If you really want to get to the top in this game, you have to be diligent. Follow a dream, but be objective about your own goals. Set yearly, monthly, weekly, daily goals. For example, if you want to get rid of a habit, write the goal "in two months I want to be free from this habit" on your agenda, then set the daily task "making 10 games thinking actively about not doing it, if I do it not on purpose more than 5 times in a game, I lose the game", and make an accomplish mark once you've done it, even if you lose the game. Every mark is a step towards your main goal, there is no way your brain is not going to delete that habit if you keep working on it, and this way you can realize you are getting better. Keep simply track of your progress. For a survival matter, our brain tends to store negative occurrences more easily and faster, that's why it's important to remember you are actually making progress and that you can be proud of yourself.
SMART is an efficient model to set goals.
Goals have to be:
Specific: "What do I want to accomplish?"
Measurable: "How will I measure the achievement of my goal?"
Achievable: "What are the specific steps to reach my goal?"
Relevant: "How does the goal relate to my long-term goals and interests?"
Time-Based: "When do I want to complete my goal?"
In this specific example:
S: "I want to get rid of my habit"
M: "Every time I'm done with the task I add a positive mark to the daily task"
A: "Of course it's achievable. I have to make 10 games a day thinking actively about not doing it, if I do it not on purpose more than 5 times in a game, I lose the game, and if itbecomes too easy, I will reduce it to 3, 2, 1, 0 times"
R: "That's relevant and realistic. It makes sense that I want to get rid of an habit to get better"
T: "I plan to get rid of my habit in two months, and for that I will work everyday".
Also focus on one/two things at time. Focusing on several problems at the same time will slow down your improvement process. Your brain is not ready for that.
5. Stress and setting apart what you do from what you are
People need this sense of identity for which they fail to distinguish having a skill from being who they are.
For this reason, they do things to express themselves (which is nothing bad), but they do it the wrong way. They perceive it as if they don't manage to do it, then they are a failure. Don't mistake who you are with what you can do. Especially in sports it is tough. Sports are meant to be stressful, as I've already said, it's a continuous adapting and re-adapting. People want to compete, they need a sense of challenge, but you can't have a challenge and not feel stressed at the same time. This means that some people use sports as the only way to express themselves, which unavoidably leads to the fact that for expressing themselves they have to feel stressed. If they are not confident enough, this could lead to a huge burn out.
6. Trusting your instinct is more efficient
The way our brain stores information is interesting. When you master certain dynamics, it recognizes them and acts by itself. As a result, you'll end up making the right choice without even thinking about it. That's why people often don't know why they made those specific decisions while playing, but those took them to the victory. A group of scientists at the University of Iowa did an experiment a few years ago. People had in front of them four decks of cards, two blue and two red. They should pick a card, and each card could make them lose or win some money. What people didn't know at the beginning is that the red deck was pure gambling: high risk, high reward, when they picked a losing card, they would lose a lot. How long did it take to these people to figure it out? After fifty cards, most of them started to develop a hunch. They didn't know why they preferred the blue decks, but they were sure those were a better choice. After eighty cards they could precisely explain why.
Then the scientists hooked each gambler up to a machine that measured the activity of the sweat glands below the skin in the palms of their hands. Glands in our palms not only react to temperature, but also to stress, that's why we have sweaty palms when we are nervous. What they found out is that gamblers started generating stress responses to the red decks by the _tenth_ card, FORTY cards before they were able to intuit what was going on with the decks.
Our body just knows how to recognize threats. This is not about playing braindead, it's about trusting ourselves. Of course, while you are doing freeplay (friendlies) it's better to think actively since you are trying to learn and not to win. But once you've mastered a dynamic, you can trust yourself and try to go for what it suggests you to do in order to be faster. If you think too much, you lose speed.
7. General advice on fear of judgement of others, taking responsibility for our reactions and control of our emotions
No one wakes up and decides to freely hurt someone. People don't start with bad intentions, they don't mean to hurt anyone, unless they have psychiatric issues. So don't take it personally if someone judges or makes a bad comment about your playstyle or whatever. Shit happens, we are humans. We can't control what others say or do, but we can control the way we react to that. Our reactions/emotions are born from thought, what hurts us the most are not events/facts, but the thoughts and the perception we have about/of them. Trivially, some people react to the same event completely differently from some others, which makes the entire world fundamentally subjective.
A stupid practical example is an event that comes to my mind about my mother. We ordered some pizza slices, and the external ones obviously have a crust, which I really like a lot. My mother started to eat all the pizza slices that had crust on it, 'cause she thought I liked the ones with no crust more, since she doesn't like them. So, in her head, she was doing me a favor, while I was getting kinda pissed. When I heard from her she did that since she wanted to give me "the best parts", then I calmed down. It wasn't the fact itself that bothered me, but the thought I had about it. We cannot read others' minds, so it's better for us (and for others) to wait and try to understand first, and then eventually have a reaction about it. How can we do it? And why are some people able to have no reactions without even putting any effort?
We obviously jump to conclusions depending on the experiences we have made until now, and adopt a reaction based on that. Our brain wants to be fast, and it tends to react how it is used to react, since that doesn't require additional energy (think about how hard it is to control our feelings when we feel bad but we want to be rational). This happens 'cause that's actually "muscle memory". Same story, neurons create a connection, a path, which will enhance by time if you put enough effort to consolidate it. I've struggled with rage issues for a lot of time, and I had to start forcing myself to not rage while playing, then it got better and better 'cause my brain was simply adapting to it. It's hard, really hard, but it's doable, and then your brain starts to react the way _you taught him to do_ by itself, since you strengthened that path enough. This obviously doesn't apply to people who have really serious issues deriving from brain injuries.
So, in the end, the most useful thing you can do is to adapt yourself to react to what you experience (and can't control) in a way that you can get the best outcome out of it.
We react based on our emotions, which derive from a thought we have about the fact in question. Changing our thoughts is a healthy way to proceed.
Some thoughts we have derive from biases. If you can identify a bias of yours, it will be easier to change your thoughts.
8. Most common biases
Here are the fourteen most common biases by Albert Ellis. He defined those as the 14 Self-Defeating rules:
1) I need everyone to approve of me.
There are people who just cannot say "no" or "I don't agree" 'cause they are afraid to not be accepted. Those people may think everything about them is just not good enough, they need to feel approved.
2) I must avoid being disliked by anyone.
Who cares? Just be yourself. You are in this world, as so many different people are. No way everyone will like you.
3) I must succeed in everything I do to be valuable.
Not really. Even a person who stays the entire day on a sofa has the right to live. Success, money, skills, won't make you a better person.
4) It's not okay to make mistakes, if I do, I am a bad person.
No mistakes = no opportunities. Don't avoid them, they are precious if you want to accomplish some goals.
5) Other people should strive to ensure I am always happy.
Not really. Don't take for granted what others do for you. Take the responsibility for your life, and life will go easier on you. Everyone has their own things to do.
6) People who do not make me happy should be punished.
Like, why? Your happiness and pleasure isn’t the responsibility of anyone else, and it’s not any more important than other people’s happiness.
7) Things must work out the way I want them to.
Those kinds of people often lose their sense of reality. Reality is not perfect, and putting expectations into it will end up with a huge disappointment.
8) My emotions are an illness which I can't control.
Nope, really. It's about putting effort
9) I can feel happy in life without contributing back in some way
People are social animals. Making something for others will make you feel eventually better than you think.
10) Everyone needs to rely on someone stronger than them.
Nope. Again. This is your life. You can have some problems related to how your parents treated you as you were a kid, but you are able to solve them. So blaming others for something you are not able to be confident in, is just an excuse.
11) Events in my past are to blame for my attitudes and behaviours today.
Nope. Same. Excuses. You can change your beliefs.
12) My future outcomes will be the same as my past outcomes.
Neh. They will if you keep making the same mistakes like doing absolutely nothing about it.
13) I shouldn't have to feel sadness, discomfort or pain.
It just happens to feel negative emotions. They are part of the process. That's life. If you are not taking action in your life 'cause you are afraid of them, I can tell you this is not the right path to follow.
14) Someone somewhere should take responsibility for me.
No. Bye.
I hope this can be useful to some of you, and I hope you appreciate my effort!
9. Sources
https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/5/1/11/1728269
http://www.combatconcepts.info/uploads/4/6/6/4/4664213/effects_of_combat_stress_on_performance.pdf
https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8653558/file/8653561.pdf
"Sport Psychology: A Complete Introduction" (John Perry)
"The Art of Mental Training - A Guide to Performance Excellence" (DC Gonzalez)
"Blink" (Malcolm Gladwell)
"Perform Under Pressure" (Ceri Evans)
"Medical Neurobiology" (PhD. Peggy Mason)
Thanks to Dobby for formatting the basics of this version and fixing errors!
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