Applying a growth mindset in sport does not mean removing competition, nor that we avoid selecting individuals. It doesn’t mean we start believing that everyone can be the best in the world. These are some common misconceptions around the growth mindset message in sport. Instead, a growth mindset provides a framework for how best to focus responses to competition, a rationale for how to communicate selection, and an understanding of how to help people always improve and to go beyond their current best performance. In a growth mindset we do not know what a person’s potential is, or how good they could become–there are no glass ceilings.

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