With Winning in Mind 3rd. Ed. Author: Lanny Bassham | Language: English | ISBN:
1934324264 | Format: EPUB
With Winning in Mind 3rd. Ed. Description
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It doesn t matter if you win or lose... until you lose. That is how Olympic Rifle Shooting Champion Lanny Bassham begins his book, With Winning in Mind, the most authoritative book available on mental training for sports and competitive business environments. The book tells the tale of a competitor who understands the feeling of losing. Bassham lost the Gold Medal and took the Silver instead after the pressure of the competition went to his head during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. In With Winning in Mind, Bassham paints a picture for readers of just why this loss was so devastating for him. Losing mattered and it hurt! But Bassham explains that he wasn t about to walk away defeated and he sets off on a journey to find out everything he can about how the mind is involved in sport and performance. What he discovered will amaze you! His discovery lead to the creation of Mental Management® Systems and brought Bassham to the Olympic victory stand just 4 years later in 1976 with his Olympic Gold Medal win in Montreal. With his discoveries, Bassham created a mental system for athletes and performers he called Mental Management®. With Winning in Mind serves as an introduction to this system, and with it you can learn the secrets to mastering pressure and the powerful mental tools used by Olympians and elite champions. This little book has helped countless number of athletes, Olympians, coaches, parents, performers, and business professionals find success in the winner s circle. Now the 3rd Edition of With Winning in Mind is available and includes new chapters, new stories and examples, and 25 percent more mind enhancing content as the last edition of the book. "Over the years there have been times where I have thought to myself, gosh, I wish I had put that in With Winning in Mind. Well now I have."Bassham said. The new version of the book is completely updated with information on decisiveness, goal setting, and the mental program. --Publishers Review
About the Author
Lanny Bassham is a World Champion and an Olympic Gold Medalist. For over three decades, he has been teaching Mental Management® to Olympians, business owners, Fortune 500 Corporations and the elite of the sport and business communities. The Mental Management System is a recognized performance enhancement program that is taught to and used by World and Olympic Champions throughout the world. Lanny Bassham is recognized as a teacher of the world s best in the area of mental preparation for sport and business. His clients include the PGA and PGA Tour players, Miss America finalists, Miss USA winners, World and Olympic champions, The FBI, The United States Secret Service, The US Navy SEALS, The United States Marshals Service, The United States Army Marksmanship Unit, The US Marine Corps Marksmanship Unit and the Olympic teams of USA, Great Britain, Canada, India, Japan, The Republic of China, Korea and Australia.
- Paperback: 182 pages
- Publisher: Mental Management Systems; 3rd. edition (September 3, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1934324264
- ISBN-13: 978-1934324264
- Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
There are a lot of books out there on positive thinking - books like "the secret" come to mind. Wish for a bike and you will get it! Wish for $1 million and you will get it! Why? Many books will outline some vague, metaphysical/new age reason - surely if you sit on your bed and squeeze eyes shut, cross your fingers, and mutter your wish over and over, god/some spiritual force/genie in the bottle will grant it for you...
This is not that kind of book. In a nutshell, the book basically lays out a mental system for positive reinforcement, planning and action. It is about dreaming, yes. But it is also about planning and taking immediate action. It IS about repetition, envisioning success, and "rehearsing" in your head - but in a way that is rooted in reality and practicality.
The book talks a lot about performance as well. The author is an olympic gold medalist in rifling, so a lot of this is applicable in high pressure scenarios. I actually came across this book was because I heard mental management being mentioned by a former navy seal/sniper in a documentary. But it's a very balanced kind of "performance" - it's not an iron-fist kind of discipline. It's a method that relies on positivity and focusing on strengths.
Yes - we all know positive thinking helps - we're not stupid. But I have never come across a book that laid it out in a comprehensive, no none-sense manner. It's clear, it makes sense, and it's not fluff. It's the same old principle...but with a new light shone on it and using simple methods that makes sense. The writing style is conversational, but with substance - I feel like I had a conversation with a wise grandparent (there's a lot of humor in the book too).
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