Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.01
EAN num: 9780446391153
ISBN number: 0446391158
Label: Warner Books
Manufacturer: Warner Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 218
Printing Date: 1985-09
Publishing house: Warner Books
Sale Popularity Level: 664859
Studio: Warner Books
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The author provides many stories about people who operate in a zone with peaks of performance but provides little advice on how to enter this zone.
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as a college student athlete, i was assigned to read this book for a sport psychology class. I found it very interesting and followed the phases of each section. After reading this book, i have found myself applying many of its lessons in my athletic performances as well as everyday tasks. This book was borrowed from my professor and even as a broke college student I can't wait to get my own copy in the mail. I highly reccomend this book.
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Although this book appears to be only for sports and the athletic minded, Dr. Garfield also provides examples on how to use these techniques in business as well.
I used Dr. Garfield's techniques in the late 1980's and it made a significant difference in my sales career. I blew past previous limits and won sales contest after sales contest. The techniques work.
I noticed a previous reviewer mentioning NLP techniques. I know of many NLP practioners who wholly endorse Dr. Garfield and in the techniques are similiar. Both involve visualization. Dr. Garfield offers techniques that are not quite as complicated and deliver the same or similiar, or in some cases, better results.
Highly recommended if you can still get a copy. I also have a set of tapes by Dr. Garfield that he did for Nightingale-Conant back in the 80's.
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How unfortunate that this great book with it's fantastic principles has been left behind in the wake of newer technologies like NLP.
I very first became aware of Dr. Garfield back in 1984 when I was preparing for an athletic competition. I bought Peak Performance, began doing the exercises starting with volition using clusters and the other visualization exercises and it made a huge difference.
When going through a box of old books, I came across this book and started doing the exercises again. Still a winning formula, in my opinion as effective as NLP and a definite under-rated and nearly forgotten but excellent book.
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This book really is one the definitive discussions of mental training from the very first chapter where Charles Garfield describes an actual experience with, and the remarkable results of, Soviet-style mental training. The exercises are generally excellent (although I found some of the exercises for planning to be a little bit difficult to follow). I believe that if you're serious about this subject, you have to read this book.
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