Steve Magness (@stevemagness)

We often think coaching is all about the workouts, game plans, and the technical stuff. It's not. That stuff matters. But it misses the stuff that actually make a difference. Here's 23 coaching principles I've collected over two decades of coaching everyone from high school kids to some of the wor...

Alysa Liu just won Olympic gold. She retired at 16. Was traumatized by the sport. Wouldn't go near an ice rink. And just delivered a career-best on the biggest stage on earth. It's the most compelling comeback story in sports right now. At 13, Liu was the youngest US national champion ever. At 16...

One of the biggest saboteurs of performance: Your mind lingering. Getting stuck on the past. We just watched it at the NFC Championship game. Seahawks defensive back Riq Woolen made a crucial stop on 3rd and 12. Then he made a bonehead mistake, taunting the Rams sideline. Flag thrown. 1st down. Th...

You were meant to matter in your neighborhood. Now you're trying to matter to the entire world. No wonder you feel lost, stuck, and unmotivated. You're competing in a game your brain was never built to play....

Alex Honnold just climbed the 1,667-foot Taipei 101 building live for the world to see. No rope. No harness. No safety gear. 101 floors. His first words at the top? "Sick." Then he took a selfie. How does someone deal with the fear and pressure of knowing one mistake means death? Neuroscientist...

We have a crisis. We can't (and don't) read deeply anymore. We skim, swipe, scroll. Less than half of all adults read one book last year. For teens, the trend is even worse. We're losing something essential: the ability to think deeply: ...

We don't fail because we don't want it enough. We fail because we are terrified of finding our limits. Fear of not being good enough or measuring up. We are terrified of the potential for failure....

90% of coaching is helping people get out of their own way. Ego, fear of failure, status anxiety, external validation = Get in our way. I've spent 20 years working with elite performers on how to get the most out of ourselves. Here are the key lessons:...

Panic is a processing error. We freeze when we can no longer compute the next move. The brain simply gets overwhelmed by too much input at once. It crashes like an overloaded computer. The antidote? Make the game slow down....