You know what luck is? Luck is believing you’re lucky. Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947 (Cooper, 2022). How do you approach competition? In your view, do you dare to win or do you dare to lose? Most people feel they dare to win because in their eyes, if they dare to lose, they are looking pessimistically at the challenge before them. When we take a psychological lens to explore these possibilities, we see at least two constructs in action. First, our need to

Did you ever wonder about professionals and world-class athletes that have made it to the top of the game and wonder how they got there? Did you ever think it might have something to do with the size of the population in which they grew up? There is research which suggests that the size of the city where an athlete spends their developmental years can affect the chances of attaining elite level performance. Small to medium-sized communities (about 30,000 to 1,000,000) seem to