8 articles by Kishore Kumar
Most people picture a motivational speech. The real work looks far more like training than talking.
The short version of who I am, what I actually do, and who I work with — for athletes, parents and academies trying to work out whether I'm the right coach.
Sports psychology has a reputation problem in India — it gets confused with motivational speaking. Here's what the real work looks like.
Student athletes carry two pressure systems at once. Almost nobody trains them for that.
Your body cannot tell the difference between a final and a genuine threat. That's the whole mechanism — and it's workable.
Every athlete I've coached who looked fearless was afraid. They had just stopped waiting for the fear to leave.
You didn't forget it. Under pressure your working memory got occupied by something else.
More analysis rarely produces a better decision. Past a point it just delays it.