It was interesting watching a clip of Cathy Freeman yesterday reflecting on her gold medal success at the Sydney Olympics, in front of 112,000 people, carrying the hopes of a nation and performing under a huge weight of expectation. In the midst of all of that hype, excitement, pressure, hope…

It's clear to us that when the conditions are favourable, people get very used to being able to get away with minimal preparation - your natural talents, allied with the helpful environment, conspire to get you to where you want to be - the conditions lull you into a false…

If the kind of objective feedback that you're used to has gone awol, it can be pretty difficult to judge yourself in the way that you're used to. This is a bit like when the sports people we work with have to perform in very different weather conditions - the…

A busy week for us at K2, hence the lack of missives. Back to it though. We were thinking about the fundamental things that underpin performance this week and as any good student will tell you (!), the first thing to do when thinking about something is to look it…

Rather than simply blogging regularly, we do write slightly longer musings from time to time. Have a look at the links to the left under "our thoughts" and click on number 3 for our latest offering. Please comment here if there's anything you'd like to feed back about that article…

We know from the greatest people we've worked with that they're superb at consistently carrying around with them the ideas that...Their natural talent is not enough for them to excel...They have to constantly keep working on where to focus their desire to improve... andThey have to embrace change and drive…

We'd highly recommend visiting www.badscience.net to help you debunk the bad science and much of the nonsense that gets published about what might or might not be good for you. It's clear from a lot of the trash newspaper articles that Ben Goldacre takes to task, that the common theme…

In this video we see Prof Richard Wiseman (of "The Luck Factor" and "Quirkology") demonstrating that firewalking is a load of old tosh. Most enjoyable, as although we believe in the power of the mind sometimes it can be taken a bit too far! Fine line - genius and insanity!…

Two words I thought I'd never write next to each other... an oxymoron if ever there was one!   However, take a look at this from Robbie Keane, the Liverpool benchwarmer.   "I'm not being big-headed but I've scored a lot of goals in the last 10 years and it's…

Someone mentioned today that there is opportunity in chaos... Seems like a sensible assertion. And there is opportunity for sure, providing your know what abilities you have to exploit that opportunity. It's been said that "chance favours the prepared mind" and these two ideas sit nicely together. Opportunity and the…