Positive and Negative Fear

🗣️ “Don't lose a game because you're unprepared.”

Kelvin Sampson shares why coaches should coach out of positive fear to drive you to be the best you can be and to always have a chip on your shoulder. pic.twitter.com/f6TwEio1XQ

— Coaching U (@Coaching_U) June 27, 2026

There is dread and there is nervous excitement. Dread defeats us. Nervous excitement energizes us. 

Preparation helps extinguish positive fear. 

It's less clear what dampens negative fear. Sometimes cinema does a good job of doing that. 

There's the 'Training Montage' in Rocky IV. 

And there's the 'dry run' scene in Top Gun - Maverick.  

And there's the true story of Clarissa Shields... Olympic Gold Medalist

Deserve success.