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Learn a better approach to practicing for the SAT and ACT.
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Learn a better approach to pressure situations so you can always play your best game.
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Steve and Tom offer advice on how to support your teenagers as they strive to improve themselves.
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Aim For Perfection Without Ruining Your Life
"If you're using perfection as a club, remember this one thing: you're the one holding the club, and you can stop hitting yourself any time you want."
Have High Expectations Without Crippling Stress
"The idea of embracing a high goal and letting go of it may seem to be a contradiction—and it is! Great performers learn to do both."
Smarter Than An SAT Or ACT Score
"At the end of the day, being 'smart' is more of a discipline than a talent. It’s about having the confidence that, if you need to, you can train yourself to be excellent at anything you want."
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Your True Potential
"When you honor your potential, you recognize that your past performance in any area does not limit you."
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What If You Allowed Yourself Enough Time to Succeed? (Part One)
Steve on the importance of giving yourself enough time to properly train yourself to be excellent at standardized tests.
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How to Just Do Your Job in Big Moments
Tom engages in a little hero-worship of outgoing New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin, and talks about the one thing we can do to help us succeed when the stakes are at their highest.
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When You Know How To Learn, You Can Learn Anything
Steve discusses lessons about learning that every student can benefit from in Josh Waitzkin's book The Art of Learning.
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When Practice Isn’t Enough By Itself
Steve talks about how sometimes, simply practicing twice as hard isn't the answer. He knows from experience.
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Thanksgiving: A Much Smarter Way to Think and Feel
A star quarterback whose career was ended by a gruesome leg injury calls it a blessing. We try to figure out what the heck he means by that.
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The Billionaire Who Played Badly At First
Steve talks about Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, and how she responded to her early struggles to get her company off the ground.
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A Better Approach to Standardized Tests
"Think about the SAT or ACT in the same manner as you do the other games of skill that you play: sports such as tennis or golf, performing arts such as piano or ballet."
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How to Get to the Other Side of Fear
Steve talks about how people who accomplish great things get past the fear that stops a lot of people from being their best.
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Writing Isn’t Really That Hard!
Did you see the thing in the Washington Post about how most Americans are "lousy writers?" Tom did, and he has a simple solution to all of your writing woes.
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