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06 Feb 2026
The most resilient athletes tend to be self-compassionate rather than hard on themselves.

So we know that the most resilient athletes are those that tend to be self-compassionate, right? So like- Interesting. Yeah. That's interesting. I would have thought the opposite. Yeah. And so there's this idea, right, that you want killers. You want people hard on themselves. guys who are hard on themselves but for sustained and and so this is looking across like as broad as possible across sport Those who are most successful most often, of course, there's going to be the killer who's just like hardened himself and gets the job done, of course, right? But these elements of self-compassion that include things like mindfulness, like thinking about the world and understanding it and about their place in it and common humanity, which is like treating themselves as they would treat other people and acknowledging the right, we all make mistakes and stuff always happens, but I can overcome this. This has happened to me before. Like I've sucked, I've crashed, I've done something wrong. And hey, I overcame it and now I'm succeeding again. Those mental skills are most common amongst the high-level athletes.