🚨 Are your beliefs holding you back in sports? Confirmation bias might be the hidden obstacle keeping you from reaching your full potential. In this episode, we’ll break down:

✅ What confirmation bias is and how it affects athletes
✅ Examples of how it impacts performance
✅ Simple, actionable strategies to overcome it and unlock your best self

Whether you struggle with self-doubt, negative self-talk, or even overconfidence, understanding confirmation bias is the first step toward becoming a more resilient and confident athlete. 💪

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Learn the difference between subconscious and conscious thoughts and how you can use each to stop negative thoughts as an athlete and think in a more positive and confident way.

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Free Training: Top 5 Mental Mistakes Athletes Make

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Do you spend a lot of time thinking about what could go wrong? Do you worry about mistakes?

The more you think about not wanting to make mistakes and the more you think about what could go wrong, the more you are creating scenes in your mind of those things happening. Over time, this destroys confidence.

Learn how negative visualization hurts your game and your confidence, and how you, as an athlete, can manage this.

➡️ Interested in 1-1 mental performance coaching? Schedule your free introductory call to learn more: https://www.successstartswithin.com/get-coaching

👉 Confident Competitor Academy

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Free Training: Top 5 Mental Mistakes Athletes Make

7 Day Free Trial of Mental Training App: https://mentaltrainingadvantage.mvt.so/

Check out our sport psychology and mental training articles:

Connect with Success Starts Within, LLC:

👉 YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTKTsxBhit3shv2CXjuDI8g
👉 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elistraw/
👉 Sports Psychology Website: https://www.successstartswithin.com