Mental toughness is often mentioned as a necessary attribute for success. Is there, however, a difference between plain old toughness, and mental toughness? And how do you develop both? Mental Toughness is Toughness. For some reason we feel the need to separate toughness and mental toughness, but the truth is that all toughness, even of […]
Toughness is a Sword Sharpened by Inconvenience
“To build mental toughness, you have to inconvenience yourself. The early morning runs if you hate late night runs, the late night runs if you hate early morning runs, the snowy, cold, the worst conditions you can get, put yourself in those conditions and really make it inconvenient, and you start to get a genuine expectation of winning for […]