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I totally agree. I work in sports with kids, and they are not used at all to exit their comfort zone, and their biggest fear is making an Error/Mistake, and that's so sad because. In sport is fundamental to fail, get the right feedback, and retry the action in a different way, constantly failing ad adjusting your moves and your body to the challenge you will face. The sport I teach is one when you need an Open-skills where you constantly have to adapt to different situations.

Panic attacks in the last year soared amongst young athletes (most girls) in an age between 12/16 yr.

Now the priority I have is trying to build self confidence and acceptance of failure, trying to making them perceive the failed attempt as Proof of their Work, and train. I noticed that when they manage yo do it, their speed of improvement skyrocket as they number of fails increase, but they don't mind more, and just start teying again without thinking about "I did it wrong, what will other think about me.. am I a failure?"..

I think the last 2/3 years didn't help them at all.

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