“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.” – Billy Graham In the 1530s, Sir Thomas More was one of the most respected men in England. He was a brilliant lawyer, a renowned scholar and Lord Chancellor to King Henry VIII. By every earthly measure, he had it all. Wealth, influence, prestige, the respect of his peers, and the favor of the king. Then the test came. Henry VIII made the decision to divorce his

In his book Greatness, David L. Cook, PhD distills decades of elite performance coaching into four foundational drivers of success: focus, passion, mental toughness, and selfless exceptionalism. These ideas are not novel, and I suspect that’s precisely the point. Dr. Cook isn’t theorizing from the sidelines. He served as the mental training coach for the San Antonio Spurs from 1996 to 2024, directed the Applied Sport and Performance Psychology program at the University of Kan