Mastery Vs Bestism Vs Perfectionism

04/25/21 • 13 min

MindFullSports: A Sports Psychology Podcast

This is the first in a four-part series on competitive mindsets. I believe there are three distinct mindsets. We can try to simply be masters of our craft, be the best at what we do, or strive for the ever elusive perfection.This episode is also available as a blog post: https://mindfullsports.wordpress.com/2021/04/14/mastery-vs-bestism-vs-perfectionism/

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MindFullSports: A Sports Psychology Podcast - Mastery Vs Bestism Vs Perfectionism

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MindFullSports Media00:00:01.560

Welcome, everyone to another episode of mindful sports. Want to thank everybody for being here today apologize right off the bat voice might be a little raspy as I'm dealing with allergies. But I wanted to talk today, about three different terms to that you have probably heard of, and one that might be new to these terms would be mastery, best ism, and perfectionism. mastery of perfectionism. Sure, everyone is already heard of best ism