Sep 19, 2025 | Canada, Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
How mental toughness can be a significant factor in leading a longer and better life. Why is longevity rising on the agenda? The average age of a male born in my birth year, 1949, is 65.3 years – the same in North America. For a male born this year, 2025, life...
Sep 8, 2025 | Doug Strycharczyk, Education, Mental Toughness
Background The business school, based in mainland Europe, is an elite business school which was ranked in the top three schools worldwide in its field. The flagship programme was a Master’s programme which attracted academically elite students from around the...
May 26, 2025 | Coaching, Doug Strycharczyk, Psychometrics
Probably the most common response we get when speaking about the use of psychometrics is “I have my psychometric”. What they mean is they have one measure, often an ipsative measure, that they apply in every circumstance. People are complex. Each person is unique....
May 19, 2025 | Coaching, Doug Strycharczyk, Psychometrics
A few weeks ago, we were in discussion with a client about them considering using our mental toughness questionnaire – the MTQPlus – in their development programmes. The MTQPlus is a well-researched and very well-evidenced measure. The client seemed interested but...
Jan 21, 2025 | Doug Strycharczyk, John Perry, Mental Toughness
Mental Toughness describes who you are and how you respond mentally to adversity, obstacles, challenges and opportunities. A mentally tough person is not necessarily mentally strong. A mentally sensitive person is not weak. These labels confuse and interfere with...
Jan 16, 2025 | John Perry, Mental Toughness
2002 saw the launch of the 4Cs Mental Toughness concept and the MTQ48 measure. In recent times this has been developed into a powerful 8-factor concept with a high-quality measure in the MTQPlus. We now have a very good and evidenced understanding of a personality...
