• Does Talent Need Trauma To Succeed? A Sports Psychologist Weighs In

  • Aug 20 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
  • Podcast

Does Talent Need Trauma To Succeed? A Sports Psychologist Weighs In

Listen for free

View show details

  • Summary

  • Dave Collins is a sports Performance Psychologist who has coached over 90 World or Olympic medallists and professional sports teams and performers. The team delve into the concept of what makes great sporting champions, whether trauma is an essential ingredient and how competition and disappointment play a role in long terms success. Collins is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Director at Grey Matters Performance Ltd. As an academic, he has over 450 peer review publications and 90 books or chapters. As a practitioner, he has worked with over 90 World or Olympic medallists plus professional teams and performers. Collins has coached to national level in three sports, has a fifth dan in karate, has worked as Director of the Rugby Coaches Association and is a Fellow of the Society of Martial Arts and BASES, Associate Fellow of the BPS and an ex Royal Marine.


    SHOW NOTES


    The Rocky Road paper that introduced the “talent needs trauma” concept


    Champions vs Super Champions: Expanding on the concept of challenge to create champions


    A lay article on the concept outlined in the Rocky Road paper


    Get bonus content on Patreon

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
    Show More Show Less
Show More Show Less

What listeners say about Does Talent Need Trauma To Succeed? A Sports Psychologist Weighs In

Average Customer Ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.com.au reviews

Amazon Reviews
No Reviews are Available
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.