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How champions think : in sports and in life / Dr. Bob Rotella.

By: Rotella, Bob [author.]Contributor(s): Cullen, Bob [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, c2015Edition: First Simon & Schuster trade paperback editionDescription: 290 pages ; 21.2 cmContent type: text Media type: umediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781476788647 [newsprint]Subject(s): Sports -- Psychological aspects | Athletes -- Psychology | Athletes -- Attitudes | Success -- Psychological aspects

Contents:

Contents: 1. What LeBron James has in common with Pat Bradley -- 2. Learning to be optimistic -- 3. A confident self-image -- 4. Respecting your talent -- 5. Commitment, perseverance, and habit -- 6. Dreams, goals, and process -- 7. Being single-minded -- 8. Learned effectiveness: The virtuous circle -- 9. Nerves and the performance process -- 10. Evaluating yourself -- 11. Going through the fire -- 12. Working hard, working smart -- 13. When to heed the competition and when to ignore it -- 14. When to be patient and when to be impatient -- 15. Surrounding yourself with the right people -- 16. Doing what you love or loving what you do? -- 17. Sticking with your bread and butter -- 18. Creating your own reality -- 19. A life of going it.

Summary: "Acclaimed sports psychologist Bob Rotella has advised everyone from professional golfers to NBA superstars to business executives on how to flourish under pressure and overcome challenges. “Rotella’s philosophy is astonishingly simple…his success rate…is phenomenal” (The New York Times). Now, for the first time, he’s distilled his decades of in-depth research and practical experience into a potential-unlocking guide for everyone, from businesspeople to athletes to parents. Most psychology is focused on trying to make abnormal people normal. Bob Rotella’s work is to make normal people exceptional. How Champions Think takes readers inside the minds of winners in many fields. It explores how to keep the mind from holding you back, whatever your physical gifts or other talents. It’s about how to make a commitment, how to persevere, how to deal with failure. It’s about how to train your mind to create a self-image that promotes confidence and accomplishment. Any successful life starts with how you see yourself. And with these pearls of wisdom from the nation’s preeminent sports psychologist, you can learn to achieve the success of your dreams. “Straightforward and simple...Do the math. Read Rotella” (The Wall Street Journal)." -- Published by the publisher.

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"Acclaimed sports psychologist Bob Rotella has advised everyone from professional golfers to NBA superstars to business executives on how to flourish under pressure and overcome challenges. “Rotella’s philosophy is astonishingly simple…his success rate…is phenomenal” (The New York Times).

Now, for the first time, he’s distilled his decades of in-depth research and practical experience into a potential-unlocking guide for everyone, from businesspeople to athletes to parents. Most psychology is focused on trying to make abnormal people normal.

Bob Rotella’s work is to make normal people exceptional.

How Champions Think takes readers inside the minds of winners in many fields.

It explores how to keep the mind from holding you back, whatever your physical gifts or other talents.

It’s about how to make a commitment, how to persevere, how to deal with failure.

It’s about how to train your mind to create a self-image that promotes confidence and accomplishment. Any successful life starts with how you see yourself. And with these pearls of wisdom from the nation’s preeminent sports psychologist, you can learn to achieve the success of your dreams. “Straightforward and simple...Do the math. Read Rotella” (The Wall Street Journal)." -- Published by the publisher.