Research · Writing · Reflections
Think deeper
about
performance.
Ideas from performance psychology, sport, leadership and the real environments where people are asked to perform.
The book
In development
The Whisper Before the Storm
A developing body of work exploring the quieter psychological signals that can sit beneath performance: identity, intuition, pressure, knowing, flow, doubt and what happens when the noise of the moment becomes louder than the person within it.
The questions I keep returning to.
What do athletes know before they can explain it? Why can pressure drown out a feeling they trusted moments earlier? What happens to identity when performance becomes too closely tied to who we believe we are?
The book grows from interviews, research, observation and reflections from my work. This space will share some of that thinking as it develops.
Research · Writing · Reflections
Thinking in progress.
Pressure
The Inner Game: Why Performance Changes Under Pressure
You can have the skill and still find it harder to access when the moment matters. A reflection on attention, trust and pressure.
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The book
When Pressure Drowns the Whisper
What happens when consequence, evaluation and doubt become louder than our own sense of knowing?
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The person
The Person Makes the Athlete, Not the Other Way Around
Why performance psychology needs to understand the human beneath the behaviour.
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Coming soon
Notes from the book, the research and the work.
New writing will bring together interviews, psychological ideas and reflections from real performance environments.