What Does Being Mentally Tough Lead To? - Matt Bruback
Channel: Mental Toughness Trainer
Date: 2013-11-07

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What Does Being Mentally Tough Lead To? -- Matt Bruback

What mental toughness really means is being able to overcome adversity, being able to be honest and truthful with yourself during failure, being able to overcome coaches or players who do not have your best intentions at heart or in mind.   You're going to get a lot of coaches who their mentality of dealing with players is being abusive -- mentally abusive, emotionally abusive, and psychologically abusive.  That never creates successful athletes.  

You really have to have a strong core to be able to withstand that and to have mental toughness training and understanding of how to deal with these types of people.  These types of situations builds confidence, because you know that if put in that situation, in dealing with those circumstances, you can truly overcome them.  You can possibly help teach that person a lesson that, "Being abusive is not productive and you're not going to help influence me.  Or you're not going to help make the team better with that kind of attitude."

So having mental toughness and having confidence, you can build a better team.  You can help shape your environment that way.  Rather than just being a passive observer, you can actually be a very active player.  In my mind, the players that have that ability, they created opportunities for themselves.  They created friendships.  They were the leaders of every team that I was on.  

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