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self awareness

Go Big: Be Your Own Coach

If I told you the earth was flat, you’d laugh me off as some kind of nut. Yet this was the dominant perspective for thousands of years. I know it’s a hyperbolic example, but too many of us still live with ... Continue Reading

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Merging Selves: My Continued Development as a Grappler and Its Larger Meaning

A few months ago, I had the opportunity to give a presentation in front of an academic audience. It was a presentation about me and my orientation to learning theory, for a group of faculty, instructional ... Continue Reading

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Book Review: “Way of the Peaceful Warrior” by Dan Millman

When I was 12, my seventh grade English teacher told me I was “cynical.” I didn’t even know what the word meant, but after I looked it up, I nodded and thought to myself that she was right. I tended to ... Continue Reading

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Developing Self-Awareness: A Messy, Ugly, Five-Step Process

I know some of myself very well - some habits, proclivities, and tendencies. I work fairly hard at self-awareness because I find it to be helpful in all aspects of my life, athletic and otherwise. How am I ... Continue Reading

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