High Performance: Lessons from the Best on Becoming Your Best

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Awesome book. Highly practical and inspiring. It does seem like a roadmap to high performance. I'm excited to put into practice the high performance habits: Danny delves into what he believes makes a great football manager, emphasising the significance of personal management to bring out the best in players and build team momentum. They also discuss Danny’s difficult reality with mental health struggles, including dealing with rejection after new offers failed to materialise. Reflecting on his lowest point when he was arrested for drink-driving in 2019, Danny highlights the importance of mental health care and finding practical solutions to unhappiness.

Things appear their worst when you are feeling your worst, and things appear the best when you are feeling your best… You need to exercise a lot, especially if you care about your mental performance.” This book wasn't at all what I expected. i expected this to be what essentially amounts to The Productivity Project 2.0. I expected a book of techniques, tools, and strategies for being productive. That isn't actually what I got, and I'm happy that my expectations weren't satisfied here. What I got was a series of tools for maintaining that performance for the long haul without burning out, which was what I really needed.He just holds up the flag for the balance again between a deep internal investigation, and a relentless commitment to an external craft. Brendon is regularly seen on public television, and he has been in media appearances on Anderson Cooper, ABC World News, Wall Street Journal TV, NPR stations, Oprah and Friends, and other popular outlets like SUCCESS magazine, Inc.com, Forbes.com, FastCompany.com, and the Huffington Post. Jake and I met in F1, and he has always had a perspective that looked beyond the blinkers of motor-racing. This book perfectly reflects that open-mindedness. It's full of valuable principles and approaches shared by teams and athletes across professional sports, with real-world relevance to people's everyday lives. TOTO WOLFF I’ve found the easiest, fastest, most effective way to increase their energy is to teach them to master their transitions... If we can get you to change the way you shift from one activity to the next, we can revitalize your life.” Steven Bartlett describes how in school he wasn’t academic, but he discovered the skill to spot what people wanted. Then, he used this skill to become a multimillionaire CEO by the time he was 28.

That’s very interesting. Would you actually sit down with, say, American football players at the peak of their careers and read the Tao Te Ching (or the Daodejing, as it’s sometimes spelled) together? Think and Grow Rich : Written in 1937, shows you the 13 key habits of the most successful people in history Those common threads include the mental skills expressed through their craft, such as confidence, calmness, and being able to control one’s arousal states. Having a clear understanding of who they want to be, and what they want to do. Science has helped us to understand how to replicate those skills as a best practice. So, that’s the science of sport and performance psychology. We—and when I say ‘we,’ I’m talking about my partnership with Coach Carroll, the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks—we’ve found that there are five core pillars in the psychology of excellence. They are: self-discovery, mental skills, psychological framework, recovery and mindfulness. I was thoroughly underwhelmed by this book and can't believe I actually took the time to read it. I mean, who needs habits to perform better when you already have everything figured out?I read the book pretty much straight through although I have long practiced one of the tidbits of advice the author offers. I refuse to multi-task and believe it is the scourge of inefficiency and incomprehension. But I do believe in taking breaks, in changing the scene, and augmenting the primary objective (in this case, reading) with the indulgence of a good coffee or a piece of chocolate. What motivates people to reach for higher levels of success in the first place, and what practices help them improve the most Sure. As humans, there are three things we can train: our craft, our body, and our mind. The best in the world are so invested in exploring their potential that they don’t leave any one of those three up to chance. They spend very intense hours deliberately practicing their craft.

This book will appeal to you if you’re interested in how your brain works , or how to perform better, but you’ve never yet considered reading any books about the subject.Wow. I know some people say that you come to things when it is the right time in your life, but boy do I wish that I had found either this book or the podcast earlier.