Jan 22, 2024 | Coaching, Mental Toughness, Sports
An exercise in developing young people on the cusp of adulthood. Szabolcs Hollosi is a Hungarian Coach who implemented a development programme for 10 young soccer players at an elite Sports Academy in Hungary between November 2021 and May 2022. Mostly in their late...
Jan 15, 2024 | Mental Toughness
A key aspect of mental toughness that, when added to Resilience, elevates it to a more useful concept. Naom Chomsky is one of the great thinkers of our time. He is provocative in that he makes you stop and think about things that you might take for granted or simply...
Jan 8, 2024 | Doug Strycharczyk, Update
I founded AQR International on January 1st, 1989, in the middle of a recession. In my last post of 2023, I reflected on the changes since then. Sometimes it felt as though we were in a permanent recession. Where once we were a consultancy working directly with...
Dec 18, 2023 | Doug Strycharczyk, Update
Founded in 1989 as TCA Consultants, in January AQR International will reach 35 years of existence. Given that the average life of a UK company is around 7 years, we feel a degree of comfort from that. We must have done something right? Like any business, we have had...
Dec 11, 2023 | Mental Toughness
A valuable perspective. It may not be all that is claimed for it. Noam Chomsky, writing in the New York Times in March 2023 sought to put AI and particularly the hysteria around ChatGPT into some sort of perspective. “The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its...
Dec 4, 2023 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
Why understanding Mental Toughness might be the key to unlocking that potential. Anger is often thought of as a negative emotion. Something to be avoided and potentially disruptive and destructive. Research published by the American Psychological Association...
