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Welcome, listeners to the extra inch. My name's Wendy and I'm joined by Alex Doyle Consultant at Optimized Potential and doctoral candidate in sport and exercise psychology at the University of Portsmouth. Welcome back, Alex. Hi, thanks for having me back.

Our resident sports psychologist, Alex, we spoke in some detail before about resilience and the

concept of winners and bottlers and efficacy in individual and team performance and the

reinvestment theory and some of the stuff around I guess just general sports

psychology approaches to managing a team and you've since also written a piece for our newsletter which

was superb really really enjoyed that and you got in touch actually a while back because you

listened to a conversation we had around something

Jesus Perez said and it started an email chain between us and I thought do you know what we need

to just get you back on here and have another conversation because there's so much still to talk about

how have you been firstly? Very good yeah with the the classic caveat you know I think everyone's

using at the moment, like,

good, all things considered, but yes. And looking forward to, yeah, the easing of all the

lockdown rules and getting back to something looking a bit more like normality. Yeah, I mean,

just in time for, just in time for spring, summer as well, which is, which is great.

So let me read you you this um hasus

peres quote which was sent in by one of our listeners keith weichael it's quite a long one so

so prez said there are two ways in football to coach you can coach with fear or you can coach

the will to try it's risk with knowledge so if you say to a right back, be careful with this

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