Bonus Episode: An Introduction To Sports Psychology (Part 2)
The Extra Inch (Spurs Podcast)
The Extra Inch
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🗓️ 3 December 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Spurs in full cry here. |
| 0:03.5 | Look at all! |
| 0:06.5 | Bye-bye! Can we talk a bit about the nuts and balls? |
| 0:31.3 | Because that was, when we were having our pre-chat, that was all new to me, that the idea of, |
| 0:37.4 | you described |
| 0:38.3 | as process goals, performance goals and outcome goals. Do you want to talk us through that concept? |
| 0:42.5 | Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, setting goals is a really, you know, fundamental kind of tool |
| 0:49.4 | that we use in sport psychology. And, you know, as with a lot of sport psychology, it doesn't have to |
| 0:55.4 | just be used within sport, right? I mean, this is a skill that once you kind of, you can think, |
| 1:00.7 | think of the world in this way, it's something that people can use across the board. But, you know, |
| 1:04.7 | is, is thinking about the idea of sort of, you know, everyone will have sort of big dreams and |
| 1:10.3 | aspirations, right? And that will be, you know, everyone will have sort of big dreams and aspirations, right? And that will be, |
| 1:13.2 | you know, the terminology in sports psychology is that that is your outcome goal, right? So for |
| 1:18.0 | Tottenham, that might be finishing top four this season, might be even higher. But, you know, |
| 1:23.1 | that might be the outcome goal that people are aspiring to. The problem is that on a day-to-day |
| 1:27.1 | basis, |
| 1:28.0 | it's quite hard to sort of motivate yourself for that because you can't win the Premier League |
| 1:34.1 | in week one or week two, right? You have to wait until all of the game weeks are played, |
| 1:38.2 | and then you find out who's won. So what sports psychologists like to do is then break, |
| 1:42.6 | break that down. So they break down the outcome goal first into sort of performance goals. And the other reason for doing this is is the level of control. I spoke a bit already about control and it's really crucial to so much of sports psychology is that you can't determine if you're going to win the Premier League or not just as your own team, right? |
| 2:03.4 | And a great example of that would be talking to the Liverpool team a couple of seasons ago, right? |
| 2:08.1 | You go, congratulations, guys, you're going to score 99 points in the league this year. |
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