Elite young athletes (typically still psychologically adolescent) often face their greatest crisis not during poor performance, but during success because success brings fear of loss, loss of honest feedback, and complacency, which undermines development more than failure does.

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Angela Duckworth

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so often it's the players who are having a really good year that actually end up um uh for a variety of reasons like you know like that's its own kind of crisis in a way

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Angela Duckworth: Grit and Human Behavior | Episode 109The Knowledge Project Podcast
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:23:42 PM

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