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Playing Through a Contract Year Without Losing Focus

Playing Through a Contract Year Without Losing Focus

Discipline 1: Mental Resilience — Lesson 12 of 12
Lecturer: Roland Fenwick

Tying your worth to the deal alone is a mental trap. This session covers agreeing with yourself in advance what a good year looks like separate from the outcome, keeping your routine unchanged, and talking to someone removed from the contract situation when the pressure builds.

The three rules

1. Define a good year in advance.
2. Keep your routine unchanged.
3. Talk to someone removed from it.

*The full breakdown — citations, the lecturer's own story, and the discipline's quiz bank — is part of the Spy Academy programme.*

Published version 2 · Updated 2026-09-29T19:39:52.720435+00:00