Mental Coaching: talent or commitment?

In sports mental coaching the main objective is to help the athlete achieve a high level of well -being and gratification related to a satisfactory sports performance .

I often feel like asking: how important is talent in our performance? How important is the commitment we put on?

This is a recurring theme, not only in the sports field, even in the professional and personal one. In fact, we can say that this topic touches practically all aspects of our life.

Without technique, talent is nothing more than a dirty dress.

Georges Brassens

First of all I believe it is useful to make a minimum of clarity by giving the definitions of the two terms in question.

Talent is the natural predisposition we have towards something, it is an innate dowry, which therefore does not depend on us. Maybe it can be the naturalness with which we manage to perform an particular athletic gesture, or a fellowshipment to endure fatigue.

The commitment is the conscious effort that we use in doing something, unlike talent is something that depends on us. The athlete translates his degree of commitment into everyday life, respecting, for example, training, nutrition and rest.

Mental Coaching: talent or commitment?

The best things are obtained only with the maximum commitment.

Goethe

If in fact the talent can be considered as an inclination, it appears rather simple to understand that, alone, it serves very little. In fact, we can consider talent as a sort of accelerator of our learning skills.

In practice, talent allows us to quickly improve in something, but to a very important condition: if we commit ourselves to putting into practice the behaviors necessary for the training of the ability we are developing. The fruit of this commitment translates into the fact that we acquire that certain ability.

At this point we have exploited our talent, who, thanks to our commitment, allowed us to become good. But this is not enough. Being good at something, being skilled in a certain context is needed very little if this ability is not put into practice.

So here again, the commitment factor comes into play: to put into practice the skill we have learned we must commit ourselves. To make productive the ability we have acquired thanks to commitment and talent you need to put more commitment to us. Here then our skills bring us results.

In conclusion

Whatever the context we refer to we can say the following:

• With talent and commitment we get to our destination quickly.
• With talent and without the commitment we do not go anywhere.
• Without talent and with the commitment we arrive in the destination a little more slowly.
• Without talent and without the commitment we do not go anywhere.

In sports mental coaching, and not only that, it is therefore clear that having talent and not committing to exploit it is how not to have it completely.

If you really care about something, if you really want to see results, you need to put your commitment to us. Regardless of the presence or not of talent in your field of interest.

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