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To understand how Andy Murray got into tennis and how he stuck at it long and hard enough to become one of the best in the world, you have to understand Andy’s family, particularly his mother—Judy Murray. To keep her kids busy, Judy Murray would shuttle them off to activity centres, sports clubs and give them other opportunities to play. Whilst other parents were happy to sit their kids in front of the TV for hours on end (or these days shove an iPad in their hands to keep them quiet) the Murray boys were always active, even inventing their own competitive games to play with one another. Andy Murray would not be Andy Murray without his mother who introduced her son to the sport, played it herself, and had a value for sports and competition which her children learned from her.

Judy Murray // Knowing the Score: My family and our tennis story Judy Murray is best known as the mother of mother of grand slam champions Andy Murray and Jamie Murray. In this revealing account of her story she tells of her own journey in tennis from the love of the sport that her parents instilled in her to passing that down to her own two boys and the difficulties they faced on the road to becoming two of the best players in the world.

Rich Froning walks you through his life growing up, discovery of Crossfit and how he became (at the time) two time Crossfit Games champion. Rich Froning has of course gone on to win the Crossfit Games four times as an individual – a feat which to date is unmatched by any Games athlete. You get a sense of his upbringing and the nurturing of his competitive nature—at the hands of his cousins and uncles—as well as the development of his work ethic–at the hands of his parents who are very much his example in diligence. More than that this is good reading for the Christian Crossfitter/athlete as Froning makes some very salient points about what it means to be a Christian athlete and find one’s purpose not in winning alone but in glorifying God in all that he does.

The growth mindset believes that intelligence and talent are not fixed attributes but are developed through effort and perseverance. Praising someone’s (especially a child’s) achievement by saying they are smart, gifted or talented primes them into the fixed mindset— making them afraid of failure, less likely to seek help when they need it and less likely to take on more challenging goals for fear of not appearing smart, gifted or talented. Praising their effort and hard work however shifts the focus to the process taken to reach their goal and therefore helps them put more value on the learning process and growth. The growth mindset embraces challenges and loves the process of learning that leads to successful outcomes.