Performance Psychology

As an athlete, you know you must allow time for your body to rest and recover to improve. If you don’t, you risk overtraining your body, excess fatigue, and injury. Your performance suffers, and you may even stop enjoying your sport.

Performance facilitator and elite mindset coach Gareth Timmins was one of only 0.1% of Royal Marines Commando applicants to reach the end of the intensive and gruelling training, and to earn the coveted Green Beret, a world-renowned symbol of excellence. By drawing on his life experiences after reaching this elite status, his subsequent research into psychological theory and observations shared with him from many elite athletes, Timmins aims to break the commonly held assumption that people who achieve consistent successes, do so with ease.

Neuroscience is revolutionizing our understanding of human psychology and behavior. By showing how to apply this new understanding to how you recruit, manage, and develop your people, Brann is enabling you to deliver a step change in organizational performance and individual achievement.

When 17th and 18th-century Europeans replaced alcohol with coffee, it produced the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment thinking. A simple chemical change can have drastic consequences for our lives and the world. Today, nootropics, smart drugs, and self-experimentation technologies are helping high performers improve their mental performance from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.

An endlessly entertaining collection of wayward autobiographical tales about a search for a richer life thwarted at every turn by beagles, bureaucrats, and ill-advised love affairs. The unlikely story of how a failed dishwasher, tour guide, cabinet maker, bus driver, bookseller and literary journal publisher became one of Australia's hottest humor essayists.

"Rise and Run" is your invitation to embark on a transformative running journey that transcends the ordinary. Experience running as a mindful practice where the rhythm of your breath harmonizes with the beat of your heart, and each step becomes a path to self-discovery and equilibrium. In this audiobook, you'll unravel the art of running with intention, celebrating your victories, and uncovering joy in every stride. Whether you're a seasoned marathoner or a first-time runner, "Rise and Run" is your compass to infuse purpose into your running experience.

Raising Kids/ADHD Master the Art of Parenting Kids with ADHD: Unlock your Child’s Full Potential! Do you feel that you are constantly battling a storm of disorganization, anxiety, and impulsivity in your ADHD child’s daily life? This book will help you: Unravel the complexities of ADHD in today’s fast-paced world. Master the art of effective and empathetic communication with your child. Discover strategies for nurturing and boosting your child’s self-esteem. Learn coping techniques for parents to manage stress and prevent burnout.

Outperform the competition! Being unbeatable from the neck down cannot happen without first being unbeatable from the neck up. If the best athletes on the planet are all training their minds for peak performance in training and competition, why aren’t you doing the same? Unlike speed, strength, power, height, hand-eye coordination, and overall God-given talent, mental strength is a learnable skill. You just need the road map.

The study of classic and contemporary films can provide a powerful avenue to understand the experience of mental illness. In Madness at the Movies, James Charney, MD, a practicing psychiatrist and long-time cinephile, examines films that delve deeply into characters’ inner worlds, and he analyzes moments that help define their particular mental illness.

Produced in a nonclinical, easy-to-digest style, this book will help the listener understand why they put so much pressure on themselves, while doing a number of different activities to prove they have worth. Breaking out of the performance trap brings freedom we all long for.

This book examines human group dynamics and how it manifests in the Steven Spielberg film, "Schindler's List." In particular it examines the cultural and historical forces in Germany that produced events in the World War II era.

Take a transformative journey to brain fitness with Dr. Patrick Porter, renowned expert in neuroscience and cognitive enhancement and founder of BrainTap, Inc., and Ruchika Sikri, former head of Wellbeing Learning at Google and managing partner at Wisdom Ventures Fund. Together they serve as your guides to optimizing your cognitive ability and physical vitality through the integration of ancient practices and cutting-edge technologies.

Do you really know what separates champions from others? Learn from Olympic medalist, NCAA champion, and academic all-American Obadele Thompson, the “secrets” of how to: Avoid common student-athlete mistakes and pitfalls, improve your study habits and ace your classes, train better and win bigger and more often, get “paid” now by using your opportunities and resources, establish power habits to succeed in college and beyond, grow your brand, network, and relationships, and prepare for a professional sports career.

Hacking Fear has tips and tricks to help coaches and parents of high-performing athletes debug those frustrating habit loops. It is not that these athletes do not want to perform at the highest level. Instead, they have developed complex behavioral defense mechanisms to avoid unwanted consequences. In Hacking Fear, we cover many strategies to disrupt these defense habit loops and break through to achieve your athletes' goals.

Apprenez à développer votre force mentale pour améliorer vos performances sportives. Vous savez que le mental possède une grande importance dans le sport. C’est pourquoi vous cherchez à progresser mentalement. Vous désirez travailler votre mental comme vous pourriez le faire avec votre physique. Si vous souhaitez apprendre à affronter les épreuves de la vie avec la stabilité d’un roc, vous allez devoir développer votre force mentale.

Duff Gibson has spent the better part of three decades in a hotbed of Olympic sport. Despite its mischaracterization in popular culture, the mental side of sport is perhaps the most significant aspect, and what very often makes the difference between success and failure, in particular at the highest level. The Tao of Sport explores the commonality amongst elite performers relating to purpose, passion, and growth, as a means to achieving high performance, or as a means to an end in itself.

Do you feel surrounded by wolves ready to devour your self-esteem? Do you seem to be controlled by manipulators who want to take control of your life? You have to know that there is a way to keep these wolves out of your door and to give yourself peace of mind, security, and freedom. If you’d like to know all the secrets of the manipulator's game and start to play it and if you want to learn to spot signs when covert manipulation is taking place, then get this audiobook now.

Desde os tempos da faculdade, George Marmelstein segue uma espécie de filosofia de vida baseada em três princípios: seguir sua curiosidade, não perder tempo com coisas inúteis e realizar atividades que agreguem valor ao trabalho, ao bem-estar físico e ao emocional. Com o tempo, ele percebeu que devemos nos preocupar menos com o acúmulo de informações e mais com o domínio das habilidades necessárias para processar o conhecimento adquirido.

The days of smoke filled rooms, whiskey, cheeseburgers and late nights are gone. The new-school poker players are younger, leaner, and more focused on improving their physical and mental health—and they’re crushing the games. —Daniel Negreanu A NEW ERA OF POKER IS DAWNING... As a poker player, you have a great deal in common with today’s professional athletes: You've dedicated serious time to learning the fundamentals; you practice regularly; you strive to improve by analyzing every move; you use psychology to hone your winning edge—and, if you don't take care of yourself both ...

This audiobook is about developing mastery. Although I respect the fact that starting at an early age does give a person a jump start, achieving mastery - or at least a substantially enhanced level of performance - can happen at any age. As a clinical hypnotherapist and NLP trainer, obviously my emphasis will be on the use of suggestion and imagination as tools to accelerate the achievement of mastery. The more you focus on a skill, the thicker and more developed the neural substrate related to the skill will become.