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Podcast: Modern Meditations - Stoicism For The Real World
Episode: #5 - Stoic Sports Psychology: How to Improve Your Mental Game Through the Dichotomy of Control
Description: Send us Fan MailIn this episode we explore how Stoic principles like the dichotomy of control can improve mental toughness in sports performance.We discuss one of our favorite quotes: Take the case of one whose task it is to shoot a spear or arrow straight at some target. One’s ultimate aim is to do all in one’s power to shoot straight, and the same applies with our ultimate goal… To actually hit the target is, as we say, to be selected but not sought. (On Ends, III, 22)We have...