Genius of Athletes: What World-Class Competitors Know That Can Change Your Life

"Self-help from elite endurance athletes who share their life-changing, scientifically backed cognitive strategies for success in any big endeavor"
Combining cutting-edge science with illustrative interviews, this life-changing self-help book shows how we can find success in any realm with proven methods from sports psychology. 17,500 first printing.
Elite endurance athletes share their life-changing cognitive strategies for success in any big endeavor Along the path to any goal completing a marathon or a thesis paper, winning a medal or a contract familiar mental hurdles arise: We may fixate on the odds of failure or find our interest flags two thirds of the way through. Thats when elite endurance athletes top performers in running, cycling, and swimming turn to their rich arsenal of cognitive strategies to overcome self-doubt and unlock peak performance.The Genius of Athletes combines cutting-edge science with illustrative interviews to show how we, too, can find success in any realm with proven methods from sports psychology: setting process goalsbreaking tasks into smaller objectivesif&;then planning, and more techniques. Taking pointers from athletes like Olympian Meb Keflezighi? Thats sure to be a winning strategy.
A life-changing new kind of self-help that shows how we can all use the hard-won cognitive strategies of top competitors to power through any ambitious goal in any walk of life