“I could never do your job…” – this may have been said to you on more than one occasion, but have you thought about why that might be ?

Over the last couple of years I’ve been hearing more about performance psychology, stress inoculation and mental toughness as reasons that we can do what we do, and how we might be able to become even better at it.

This post by Mike Lauria is a comprehensive backgrounder (with links to even more resources) that’s well worth the 5 minutes it will take you to read;

http://emcrit.org/blogpost/imperturbability-william-osler-resilience-and-redefining-mental-toughness