The tools and strategies are common, but how you employ them should be tailor-made to the precise athlete. What is the Function of a Mental Coach? Going again to the self-discuss example, I’ve labored with athletes who want to speak to themselves in a calmer and kinder method. Following mistakes they tend to belittle themselves and beat themselves up over the error. This does nothing but lower their confidence. • Discrimination: skill to acknowledge, distinguish and interpret language-related co...