Skills, attitudes and behaviours
A sporting analogy
The players in some top sporting contests, a Golf Open Championship or a Tennis Grand Slam for instance, are exposed and isolated as brutally as any activity devised by man. It is often observed that the eventual winner in such contests is not necessarily the one with the greatest technique or most abundant natural ability, but the one who best handles their mind.
How often have we seen a fine player thrown by the moment of supreme tension? One thinks of Jana Novotna at Wimbledon (not only the once but twice before she mastered her nerves and won), or Rory McIlroy at the US Masters, far and away the leader going into the final day but ending up well down the leader board (another who would ...
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