Dane Barclay delivers his featured talk at TEDxQueenstown 2015, drawing on his experience as a performance psychologist specialising in determination and discipline to demonstrate how the brain operates under pressure and how you can learn to move out of your comfort zone.

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Often someone may have a belief that "if I am more self-compassionate, I won’t be so driven, I won’t push myself!"

It’s a pretty fair statement; but we need to look a lot deeper, and also look at the evidence of how it actually works for us when are compassionate vs when we are not compassionate.

Self-Compassion – its often a dirty word – not from us to others, but to ourselves. I’m going to talk about what it is, why it’s worth doing for well being AND performance, and why it’s actually a very important skill for you to learn…long term and what the real benefits are.

Pretty much all of my ...

Being mentally tough is important for all athletes – however in my experience, a lot of people who try to develop it go about developing it in ways that are well intended, yet lead to promoting performance inconsistency. Behaviours that lead to choking.

Mental toughness expert Dr Daniel Gucciardi o...

How can you match the world's top players in resilience and mind power? Dane Barclay provides some advice.

What do you see when you look at Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka? For me, it's players who can consistently perform when it counts, regardless of how tight ...

The greatest players are those who can find a way to win from any situation. How do you become one of them? Dane Barclay provides some advice.

It's a great feeling when you are playing a perfect match; shots are hitting their target and victory seems assured. It's a completely different experience ...