It's okay to cry
Carefully detangling process and outcome
Mindcreaser - Benjamin Portheault's substack
Aspects of performance for chess/esports, especially mental prep
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A Tale of Two Norwegians
Ealing Haaland is powering Norway to the FIFA World Cup but playing alongside Magnus Carlsen is proving troublesome
Winning Deep
Handling winning is equally important as handling losing
Lecturing Birds on Flying
Personal news and musings on coaching and performance
You are not your rating
Stop treating yourself only as improvement project
The War on Attention
I’m done consuming chess content
Dr Can's Chess Clinic podcast appearance
We had a great, free flowing conversation on Dr Can Kabadayi's podcast.
10,000 hours? Understanding the conditions for expert learning
An introduction to key ideas about the expert learning process
How to Focus
From just-sitting to just-chess, a natural relaxed focus technique.
This Substack as a Knowledge Base
Classification of all my previous articles by subject