The Mind Dynamics Of Sport
What makes the propelling art of chasing medals a refined mind science.
Rajgopal Nidamboor, PhD, is a wellness physician-writer-editor, independent researcher, critic, columnist, author and publisher. His published work includes hundreds of newspaper, magazine, Web articles, essays, meditations, columns, and critiques on a host of subjects, eight books on natural health, two coffee table tomes and an exhaustive treatise on Indian philosophy. He calls himself an irrepressible idealist. What Raj — as he's affectionately known — likes best is spending quality time with his family, close friends, and reading, writing, listening to music, watching cricket and old movies and practising mindful meditation. He lives in Navi Mumbai, India.
What makes the propelling art of chasing medals a refined mind science.
The perennial virtuosity of Barry Richards is timeless.
Harmony and symmetry are more than just concepts. They not only elevate our visual sense, but also play a major role in our life.
If Ramesh Krishnan had not been a tennis player, he’d have, doubtless, decorated the world of surgery with his deft hands and clinical ingenuity.
There’s more to Rishabh Pant than cricketing pyrotechnics. A touch of genius.
Hammond played in 85 Tests, and scored 7,249 runs; 22 hundreds; 24 fifties; 336 not out, highest score; 58.45 average—a fabulous percentage in any era.
Scott Adams’ imagination is electric, apt, valid and funny, just like his ageless metaphors.
Heart disease progresses silently—sometimes with no apparent early symptom, or sign. It, therefore, makes sense to be forewarned and forearmed.
Contemporary fallacies, or participative aura, are breaking just about everything, including earthy logic.
Why we hope that things would happen, or emerge, the way we visualise them.
When the plane landed, Nehru stormed out. But, all was hunky-dory in a flash.
Change is of little concern compared with the frequency, kind & degree of change.
The origins of the universe, the theory of everything, and more.
Technology is more than a process, a body of knowledge, also something beyond it—just like biology’s ever-expanding context.
There has to be a concerted effort by each sportsperson, and us all, to restore the great tradition of fair play, candour, and justice.