Sports Psychology

degrees: any failures, from an individual athlete making a mistake, to a team losing its highest-level contest, provide the potential to weigh on confidence. These potentially affect howmuch trust an athlete has in their skills going forward. When confidence is consistently affected, concerns can become permanent, or they can affect self-confidence of non-sports issues. Lack of self-confidence represents a major issue, but over confidence can also negatively affect performance. A player who has a greater level of trust in their skills than is realistic may make poor decisions during a game. Success that creates confidence does not inherently mean that an action should be repeated. Furthermore, at the highest levels of sports, many coaches train

Michael Jordan is often considered the greatest basketball player of all time.

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Sports Psychology