Competition: Friend or Foe?
Annie Vernon |
TEDxCambridgeUniversity
• March 2019
Competition is everywhere in life. It can be a supreme motivator or a crushing demoraliser.
Annie Vernon is an Olympic silver medallist and two-time World Champion rower. She represented Great Britain for eight years, racing at six World Championships and two Olympic Games (Beijing 2008, London 2012). She was part of World Rowing’s Outstanding Female Crew of the Year in 2007. Her first book, Mind Games, is an accessible guide to the psychology of elite sport and will be published by Bloomsbury in March 2019.