What Sir Roger Bannister Taught us about Confidence, And Why it Matters

Simon Shears
4 min readNov 12, 2021

I’ve been reading another sports psychology book, and I’m a little disappointed. My issue is that it focuses on the mindset of an athlete rather than your average Joe.

Sports psychologists worry about a competitor’s confidence before a big match, like blossoming British tennis star Emma Raducanu, who dropped out of Wimbledon but then found…

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Simon Shears

Author of 'Working [it] Out: what actually makes us exercise?' Looking at fitness through an evolutionary lens.