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That's Shopify.comaek slash special offer. Yogi Berra once said 90% of the game is half mental.

His quote was more philosophical than accurate, but sport and performance psychologists exist

because succeeding at an elite level is not just about athletics.

Now, chances are you aren't an Olympian or a professional athlete, but how many times

has someone told you to just focus before a big presentation at work, or maybe a big test at school?

In this episode, we speak with a psychologist about how the best of the best mentally prepare to

perform and how psychology is helping them. I'm Audrey Hamilton,

and this is speaking of psychology.

Steve Pretanga is a founder of a sport and performance psychology consulting firm called

I Performance Consultants. He has consulted with Olympic

athletes on the USA track and field team and is now taking his expertise beyond sports as a member

of the American Psychological Association's Coalition for Psychology of High Performance. Welcome, Dr.

Protanga. Welcome. Thanks, thank you. I think a lot of people have misconceptions about what sports psychologists do.

So you are one.

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