pillar 3

Curiosity

If you are curious about how you behave on and off the sports field, you will gather information to help you enhance your performance. This curiosity may be about how you are playing, and how your opponent is playing, but also about the emotions that come to the surface. Self-management begins with curiosity, and this includes open questions. For example asking your coach: ‘What do you think the best way is for me to improve mentally?’

The brain can be trained, just like a muscle. So curiosity is very valuable, since it leads to new discoveries that can help you to make changes. Once you realize this, there is no longer any such thing as failure. ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ become meaningless concepts: there is just scope for growth. Curiosity leads to self-knowledge.