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My Personal Sports World - 1946-50

This blog is a continuation of my own psychological, historical, experiential life with the World of Sports. This period of my life now...

The Sports World During WWII

This blog is a continuation of my own psychological, historical, experiential life with the World of Sports. This period of my life is...

My Personal Sports World During WWII

This blog is a continuation of my own psychological, historical, experiential life with the World of Sports. This period of my life is...

Caddies

Introduction to Caddies In the latest blog I informed you of my age and experiences. So in this blog and in many future blogs I will...

Getting to Know Me - Dr. Peter S. Pierro

Hi! You have been reading a lot of what I have been writing and it’s about time you learned something about me and what gives me the...

The Care and Feeding of Officials

A big problem in sports that we’re not doing enough about is the poor treatment of our Game Officials by spectators.. Officiating is a...

The Official’s Dilemma

Recently, in a Women's NCAA Tournament game a call by one of the officials has been questioned - quite thoroughly. With seconds left to...

What Is That “Erase – Erase” Business?

A while ago, we published a blog and used the term “Erase - Erase" and now some people are asking "What Is that “Erase – Erase”...

Argue for Your Limitations

Affirmations can be misused - here are three processes that we may be misusing that have us giving our brains  the wrong messages. In an...

The Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament

This week and next week we will enjoy watching the 2023-2024 Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament. Oh, Yes there’s also a Men’s NCAA...

Learnable Moment

The Learnable Moment is a great opportunity in the life of a “teacher” of any kind. In schools we call it “The Teachable Moment”. In...

The Joy of Making Mistakes - Part II

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly -- at first. Let’s think about this. Isn’t this the way the world works? We all make mistakes...

The Joy of Making Mistakes - Part I

I'm back in my good old days teaching and enjoying teaching my sixth graders. I have just passed the arithmetic test they took on adding...

Sometimes Nothing is the best thing to do.

Feedback is a very important tool in your coaching toolbox. Let’s be careful that we don’t use this very effective technique in a...

Recalling Your Strength

When I conduct seminars on Motivation and Goal Setting, I begin by telling the participants to relax, close their eyes, and do some deep...

Winning or Losing?

It’s fun to compete with others - to test your strength and abilities against others who are able to match your strength and abilities -...

Convergent and Divergent Thinking

If you are taking a classroom or standardized achievement- type test such as the GRE (Graduate  Records Examination), leave your creative...

State-Dependent Memory

In a book Dr. Pierro wrote on Achievement Testing, he insisted that the conditions in which his children were taking the achievement test...

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