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September 2026

Stop with the Punishment and “Toughness” Workouts!
A college hockey player is in a coma after a preseason "team-building" workout. It's time to stop treating suffering as the point.
 • Steve Magness
Instagram Writing and the Decline of Reading
We’ve traded depth for superficiality everywhere.
 • Steve Magness
Anger, Composure, and the Myth of the Perfect Competitor
What Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina reveal about the many ways to perform under pressure.
 • Steve Magness
How You Chase the Unthinkable
This Generation's Four-Minute Mile.
 • Steve Magness
The Rams Are Flying 16 Hours to Play an NFL Game the Next Day. Is That Insane?
The science of jet lag, travel fatigue, sleep, and the NFL’s great Australia experiment.
 • Steve Magness
The Youth Sports Parents Aren't Crazy
They're solving a real problem, badly, because the cheap solution was taken away.
 • Steve Magness

August 2026

What Great Coaching Actually Requires
27 lessons on helping athletes perform, grow, and eventually make the climb their own
 • Steve Magness
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
Dolly Parton and the Science of Becoming Who You Are
 • Steve Magness
Connection Is the New Exercise
We removed the friction that used to do it for us. Now, like exercise, we have to put it back on purpose.
 • Steve Magness
Why the Best Don't Find It Boring
Kobe said fall in love with the boredom. A sociologist who spent years with Olympic swimmers found they'd stopped calling it boring a long time ago.
 • Steve Magness
Starved of Significance: Why Intense Moments (Like Youth Sports) Matter More Than Ever
We desperately need to feel alive
 • Steve Magness
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