Becker's Healthcare July 10, 2024
Physicians, like Olympians, are highly trained professionals who do physically and mentally demanding work. Because of that parallel, physicians may find it useful to adopt the training elite athletes use to perform under pressure, Medscape reported July 10.
Medscape spoke to sports psychologists who work with Olympic athletes and other experts to find nine mental techniques physicians can use to perform like Olympians in their work.
- Try “control” exercises: Using a pen and paper, draw a small circle and write the things you can control, for example attitude, effort and preparation. Then draw a bigger circles around the first and fill it with what you can influence. In a third circle that encompasses the first two, write down the...
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