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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."

Building Better Habits of Thinking

Articles about how champions in every field use their beliefs to make themselves better at what they do.

Building Better Habits of Feeling

Articles about how champions in every field use their emotions to make themselves better at what they do.

Building Better Habits of Learning

Articles focused on helping you learn how to master any game of skill.

Mastering School Subjects

Learn a better approach to your more challenging classes.

Mastering the SAT and ACT

Learn a better approach to practicing for the SAT and ACT.

Overcoming Test Anxiety

Learn a better approach to pressure situations so you can always play your best game.

Parents, These Are For You

Steve and Tom offer advice on how to support your teenagers as they strive to improve themselves.

Student Case Studies

Lessons we've learned from working with certain students over the years.

Testimonials

A collection of thank-you notes from our students and parents that we've held onto over the years.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How to Approach the New ACT Essay

Have you guys seen the new ACT essay? It's...not that different. Tom makes some suggestions for how to write it.

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.

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."

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.

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.

Our Self-Perceived Limits

Steve pays tribute to Major Lisa Jaster, US Army, who graduated Ranger School this week. She's the third woman ever to complete the program...and the oldest by over a decade.

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