Your Score Is Lying to You

You look at the score. Good number, good day. Bad number, bad day. But that single number is hiding almost everything that actually happened during your round, and it's costing you progress. Here's how to fix that with a 5-minute post-round habit. 🔔 Subscribe for more: After a competition, most shooters anchor their entire assessment to one number on a card. But a score is an outcome measure. It tells you what came out at the end, not what was happening on the way there. In this video, Paul and Alex break down why your score alone is an often misleading measure of your performance. They explain how mental performance markers like reset skills, routine consistency, and attention recovery are genuinely measurable, and why tracking them alongside your score builds a far richer picture of your development. You'll also learn the "training partner test", a simple reframe that exposes how unfairly most evaluate their own rounds, plus a practical five-minute post-round review habit you can start after your very next shoot. TIMESTAMPS: 0:33 — The problem with score-only evaluation 2:22 — Why mental performance is measurable 5:05 — The training partner test 8:44 — Building a richer post-round review 9:20 — The 5-minute habit: score plus four questions 10:40 — Why experienced shooters plateau (and what to do) --- 🎯 FIND OUT MORE: Paul Hughes: https://sportshootingpsychologist.com/ Alex Wilkinson: https://subscribepage.io/TargetinMind --- #ShootingSports #SportPsychology #MentalGame #CompetitiveShooting #MentalTraining #ShootingPerformance