Dan Travis is the Director of the Brighton Salon and a professional sports coach.

The myth of motivation

With the inward turn that positive thinking brings comes the problem of procrastination. When teaching tennis players, a common problem is the decision to avoid competition until a particular stroke is working properly. I call this the ‘perfect forehand syndrome’.

An offside argument

The book does not fall into the trap of turning sport into a cause, a trend amongst sports bodies and government policy makers. It does, however, manifest a particularly nihilistic and fearful attitude to sporting competition.