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Podcast: Deep Leadership
Episode: The Confidence Trap: Why Great Performers Choke Under Pressure with Scott Papek
Description: The Confidence Trap: Why Great Performers Choke Under Pressure
Why do talented athletes, leaders, and entrepreneurs sometimes lose confidence in the moments that matter most?
In this episode of the Deep Leadership Podcast, I sit down with mindset coach Scott Papek to explore why even high performers struggle with pressure, overthinking, and self-doubt. Scott works with athletes from middle school through college, helping them build the mental skills needed to compete with confidence.
Together they discuss how confidence is actually trained, why negative self-talk and fear of judgment sabotage performance, and how focusing...