AQR International Blog

One of the principles of the MTQ48 mental toughness framework is to strive to be the best one can be by stretching oneself and learning from everything especially the setbacks and failures. This makes sense in the long term but how do you actually recover if you make...

7 Quick Ways To ‘Make It Happen Fast’ One of the characteristics of mentally tough people and indeed successful people in general, is their ability to quickly and consistently achieve the right outcomes to the desired quality. They “make it happen fast” and this...

In A Pickle? Use Your Mental Toughness To Burst Out Of The Blocks Being mentally tough means you have a confident and resilient mindset which helps you improve your performance and wellbeing in every part of your life including work, personal relationships and...

“ Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment ” This was a great phrase attributed to Jim Horning, an American computer scientist and author, although he claims to have ‘borrowed’ it from Nasreddin, a legendary folk character in the Middle...

One of my favourite writers on mental toughness is ex FBI agent, La Rae Quy, who frequently uses her upbringing and experience as an FBI operative in her storytelling. In this post she offers some valuable advice on how to develop grit when times are tough. Take it...