18 10, 2023

Should You Follow Live-Timing When Your Kids Race?

By | October 18th, 2023|Categories: Ski Racing|Tags: , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

This article is my third and final in a series on the role of technology in ski racing (here’s #1 and #2). Today, I will focus on one particular technology that has become ever-present in our sport and is changing the way parents (and kids) follow races. I’m talking about Live-Timing, an online platform that [...]

11 10, 2023

Does Tech Use Hurts Ski Racers?

By | October 11th, 2023|Categories: Ski Racing, Sports|Tags: , , , , , |1 Comment

I have a lot of pet peeves when it comes to ski racers when they’re training including leaning on their poles shortly before a training run (no intensity), chatting it up with teammates when they’re in the starting gate of a training course (no focus), and half-hearted effort to the first gate (easing into the [...]

14 03, 2023

Psychology of Sports Technology-Part II: FORM Smart Swim Goggles

By | March 14th, 2023|Categories: Cycling, Sports, Triathlon|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

In the last installment of my Psychology of Sports Technology, I focused on Firefly Recovery which has been scientifically proven to facilitate recovery from intense efforts in training and competition (as well as mitigating the effects of jetlag). In today’s installment, I introduce you to FORM smart swim goggles, an absolute game changer in my [...]

17 11, 2022

Parenting Q&A with Dr. Jim Taylor-Sponsored by MindJournal

By | November 17th, 2022|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Last night I was invited to speak as part of a TheMindsJournal.com series titled "Expert Mind Talks" on Facebook. I presented a parenting workshop followed by a Q&A based on three of my parenting books. I begin speaking at about 1:30 of the recording.

31 08, 2022

Listen Up: Why Earbuds are a Threat to Ourselves and Society

By | August 31st, 2022|Categories: Health, Popular Culture, Psychology, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Given my subtitle, you might be thinking that I’m a Luddite or some crackpot Chicken Little (“The Skype is falling!!”). But I’m not some anti-tech kook (really, I’m not). But over the years, I have assumed the role of a modern-day Paul Revere (“The techies are coming!”), wanting to alert people to the real harm [...]

31 01, 2022

Is Social Media an Existential Threat to Civilized Society?

By | January 31st, 2022|Categories: Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

The conventional wisdom among social-media experts is that social media is neither good nor bad; rather it is how social media is used that determines whether it is life affirming or life damaging. These same social-media experts (myself included) have been reluctant to speak strongly against these technology platforms for fear of being labeled a [...]

22 11, 2021

Five Powerful Forces that Shape Our Lives (and Where Does Free Will Fit in?): Part I

By | November 22nd, 2021|Categories: COVID-19 Crisis, Parenting, Personal Growth, Psychology, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Choices, options, alternatives, preferences, opportunities, decisions; these are all words that have a powerful impact on our collective psyches as human beings. They evoke free will and self-determination, the ability to become whomever we want to become, and the ability to opt for whatever road we choose in our life’s journey. Yet, whether we actually [...]

26 10, 2021

Inside the Tri-Mind: The Psychology of Endurance-sport Technology

By | October 26th, 2021|Categories: Cycling, Sports, Triathlon|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

You might think that a sport psychologist wouldn’t be interested in technology or hard data. Aren’t we supposed to be into mind stuff like thoughts and emotion? Well yes, psychology is very much about the psyche. At the same time, you may not realize that the data that comes out of a modern endurance-sport watch [...]

16 09, 2021

Taylor Interview on the Emerging Metaverse

By | September 16th, 2021|Categories: Technology|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

I was recently interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the NPR of Down Under) about the impact of the emerging metaverse that is being talked about by leading tech companies. If you're unfamiliar with what the metaverse is, here's the definition from Wikipedia: "...typically used to describe the concept of a future iteration of the [...]

15 04, 2019

A Powerful Message to Young Female Athletes

By | April 15th, 2019|Categories: Sports|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

In an era in which young women are receiving so many mixed messages about who they can be and who they should be. In a time when so many young women are spending too much time staring at screens that are shaping the way they think and feel about themselves, mostly for the negative. At [...]