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How Elite Athletes' Motivational Profiles Determine Their Fate Years in Advance

Author
Esther Nava
Published
Sat 06 Sep 2025
Episode Link
https://esthernava.substack.com/p/how-elite-athletes-motivational-profiles

After studying thousands of elite athletes, researchers have identified four core motivational profiles that predict performance, wellbeing, and career longevity with stunning accuracy. Whether you're powered by mastery or ego, autonomy or control determines not just your success but your entire relationship with challenge. Discover which profile you fit, why some fuel sources are psychological poison, and how to engineer the motivational mix that champions rely on.



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