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. That&;s 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? That&;s 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