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The Performance Reservoir Model: Turning Stress into Sustainable Performance
Stress has a bad reputation. We hear the word and immediately think of overwhelm, fatigue, or burnout. But in both sport and business,...

Steve Barbour
Nov 34 min read
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How Your Brain Resists Change – and How to Train it to Adapt
We, as humans, are creatures of habit. It’s a mindset embedded within us from our days as hunter gatherers (and probably well before...

Steve Barbour
Oct 133 min read
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The ADAPT Framework: Training Your Mind to Thrive Through Change
Change is the only constant - in sport, aviation, and life. Yet most people treat it as something to survive, not something to train for....

Steve Barbour
Oct 72 min read
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Subliminal Conditioning: Pavlov’s New Pet
While flying recently, I was handling the aircraft on an instrument approach in for a touch and go. I was wearing the oxygen mask, as we...

Steve Barbour
Apr 134 min read
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Standard Stall Recovery - Going Against the Script?
On 1st June 2009, Air France Flight 447 was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. During the flight, the Airbus 330-200 flew through some...

Steve Barbour
Aug 20, 20244 min read
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How much pressure is too much? The Goldilocks Problem
In most walks of life, people find themselves in high pressure situations. This often builds over time, with increasing workload, or...

Steve Barbour
Aug 15, 20245 min read
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On the right, look right, starting left – the anchoring effect
I’m not always making errors; despite whatever picture these articles may appear to paint. But I am open about them, as I genuinely...

Steve Barbour
Aug 13, 20244 min read
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