Meathead

Although chess isn't always a sport, their is a lot of crossover that offers a wealth of often neglected knowledge.

Successful athletes, as compared to less successful athletes, are:

1. More self confident

2. Better able to use more effective cognitive strategies and coping mechanisms to retain optimal competitive focus in the face of obstacles and distractions

3. Better able to self-regulate activation efficiently

4. More positively preoccupied with sport, in terms of thoughts, images, and feelings

5. More highly determined and committed to excellence in their sport

also,

Positive perfectionists set high personal standards for achievement and are highly motivated to succeed. Negative perfectionists also set high standards of achievement, but they are overcritical in evaluating their performance and unable to accept mistakes.

Positive perfectionism in athletes is related to success, whereas negative perfectionism is related to anxiety and burnout.