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“Mental toughness” in sports is so overworked a concept that it feels like it’s been around forever. But it was only in the 1980s that performance psychologist Jim Loehr popularized the term. In the relatively short period since, what we talk about when we talk about athletes’ mental strength has been garbled into oblivion and, in many cases, used to wave away legitimate mental health concerns.
