study that looked into the relationship between different personality traits that determine our mental toughness. The authors studied professional athletes and found five personality traits that were predictive of success in sports.
I love that the authors of the study brought up the relationship between ego and mental toughness. In my opinion, ego is a tool that we shouldn’t suppress.
In the study, they define ego as “A measure of one’s capacity to handle setbacks, criticism, and rejection.”If you score high on ego-strength, you’re less affected by failure and setbacks.
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