{"id":29,"date":"2008-01-03T02:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peaksports.com\/sports_psychology_blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2025-06-16T05:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:49:19","slug":"sports-psychology-sturdy-or-fragile-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/sports-psychology-blog\/sports-psychology-sturdy-or-fragile-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Psychology: Sturdy or Fragile Confidence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/sports-psychology-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/self-confident.jpg\" alt=\"Self Confidence\" class=\"wp-image-6963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/sports-psychology-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/self-confident.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/sports-psychology-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/self-confident-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Importance_of_a_Positive_Self-Image\"><\/span>The Importance of a Positive Self-Image<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 ez-toc-wrap-center counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Article Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #0769bf;color:#0769bf\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #0769bf;color:#0769bf\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/sports-psychology-blog\/sports-psychology-sturdy-or-fragile-confidence\/#The_Importance_of_a_Positive_Self-Image\" >The Importance of a Positive Self-Image<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/sports-psychology-blog\/sports-psychology-sturdy-or-fragile-confidence\/#Related_Sports_Psychology_Articles\" >Related Sports Psychology Articles<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/sports-psychology-blog\/sports-psychology-sturdy-or-fragile-confidence\/#The_Confident_Athlete\" >The Confident Athlete<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">For some athletes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/the-confident-athlete-cd-program\/\"><strong>self-confidence<\/strong><\/a> goes up and down like a roller coaster, changing direction with every bump and turn in the road.Over the last 15 years, I have worked with athletes who possess both high and low levels of confidence. What allows one athlete to have a brick wall of confidence and another athlete to have a Lego wall of confidence?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">One explanation is self-image. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/the-confident-athlete-cd-program\/\"><strong>Confident athletes<\/strong> <\/a>have a positive athletic self-image. For example, when I asked Masters&#8217; Champion Larry Mize about what makes a great putter great, he said that great putters believe they are the best putters in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">The most confident athletes in sports do not just have tons of confidence. They also have sturdy levels of confidence built on years of success, instead of fragile confidence based only on the last failed or successful performance.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Anyone can feel confident for a few fleeting moments during practice, but enduring self-confidence is the mark of a champion.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Why do some athletes ride the confidence roller coaster while others ride the steady confidence gondola to the top of the mountain? One reason is that many athletes maintain an unhealthy belief that you are only as good (or as confident) as your last performance.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Self-confidence is simply a belief about one&#8217;s ability that sometimes is overwhelmed by other beliefs such as doubts, indecision, and irrational thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">One of your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/the-confident-athlete-cd-program\/\"><strong>confidence improvement goals<\/strong><\/a> is to brush aside mistakes, immediate results, or small errors that may influence your current state of confidence. Your confidence should be based on years of practice and play instead of the last shot, play, routine, or point.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Patrick J. 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You can learn to have greater levels of confidence in competition than you do in practice by identifying the specific ways you undermine your own confidence and <strong>how to convert your practice confidence into COMPETITIVE CONFIDENCE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Confident Athlete\u201d is a ground-breaking system to teach you how to think like a champion and have ultimate self-confidence every time you step on the playing field, court, track, or course. The confident athletes was <strong>developed for any athlete \u2013 junior to professional \u2013<\/strong>that wants to gain confidence. However, coaches and sports parents can learn how to teach others to perform with ultimate confidence. 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