Performance Psych Musings will be hosting conversations about, you guessed it, performance psychology.
Exploring emerging topics in performance psychology with David Farrokh.
We are practically through the first month of the year. Not sure how the beginning of the year was for you, but for me tasks came thick and fast. Along with my colleagues and myself, we are in full swing with a NCAA grant that the Performance, Recovery, and Optimization (PRO) Center was awarded with at Boston University. It has been exciting to finally get started and actually begin delivering the program called PRO Wellness.
In other news for this year, and aside from my responsibilities as a PhD student, a longtime friend of mine and I decided to jump into deep water and begin recording our conversations about the field of performance psychology. David Farrokh who is a PhD student at Sheffield Hallam University is pursuing his doctoral training in flow psychology from an ecological dynamics perspective. David is a phenomenal human and extremely knowledgeable around the concepts of flow psychology, ecological dynamics, and many other topics in the discipline of performance psychology and beyond. I highly encourage you to check his substack out at
as well as his twitter @bigpicsoccer. I am confident he will cause you to challenge your thinking and view the phenomenon of performing from a different perspective.Therefore, David and I decided to launch a bi-weekly conversation about performance psychology. We plan on discussing:
Our PhD journeys in the world of performance psychology
The research we find intriguing and emerging in the field
Various topics that encompass high performing environments
Share our own research process
Discuss how we apply empirical work in consulting scenarios
and anything that touches on performance psychology
Our goal is simply to start a conversation as PhD students in the discipline of performance psychology, and ask questions that we find interesting. It will be a process of exploring what is emerging in the field and how to navigate it as young professionals. Our prime audience could be graduate students, coaches, performers in various contexts, or someone who has an interest in the field. However, we’re also happy if no one listens, because regardless of viewership or listenership, we will continue exploring performance psychology, ask difficult questions, and pursue to find answers.
If you want to join us on this journey, feel free to subscribe to this substack or find us on Youtube, Apple Podcasts, and/or Spotify.
Lastly, if there are any particular topics you’d like us to discuss on Performance Psych Musings, feel free to leave a comment.
The bi-weekly conversations sound like a great idea! Thank you for sharing your PhD process too. I’m in the process of gathering my PhD ideas (about 2 years off applying) and find it interesting and useful to hear how others further down the line are getting on.