Alex Nicolson
Growth mindset - where it all starts
What is it? Growth mindset is a term and idea created by acclaimed Stanford psychologist, Carol Dweck. Her work has been embraced across...
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Learning toolkit
Alex Nicolson
- 3 min
The sweet spot of skill
Somewhere between freewheeling along at a task, and banging your head against a brick wall, is the optimal level of difficulty to tease...
Alex Nicolson
- 3 min
Learning environment
In so many areas of human development, we are a product of our environment. Scottish coastal golfers tend to be quite handy at playing...
Alex Nicolson
- 2 min
Self control
Letting off steam when the game is getting to you is a perfectly human response, and sometimes necessary to avoid internal combustion. ...
Alex Nicolson
- 2 min
Seek feedback
Linking cause and effect can be difficult on your own, and over time a gap between feel and real can cause what I call "anti-learning". ...
Alex Nicolson
- 2 min
Ask good questions
The curse of excessive explicit instruction in golf is that it creates mental clutter and no self-reliance. One of the joys of coaching...
Alex Nicolson
- 2 min
Awareness
Awareness (or feel) is critical to honing your golf skills. Whilst it can be informed and refined by extrinsic (external) feedback, it...
Alex Nicolson
- 2 min
Self organisation
Watching children develop physical skills is breath-taking. Aside from the lack of ego or pride which allows them to persist in spite of...
Alex Nicolson
- 2 min
Engagement
Few golfers could be accused of not trying. Synonymous with this sport, is the effort and the anguish we put in. However there is...
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