HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness (with bonus interview "Post-Traumatic Growth and Building Resilience" with Martin Seligman) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)
by Harvard Business Review, Martin E.P. Seligman, Tony Schwartz, Warren G. Bennis, Robert J. Thomas
How the Best of the Best Get Better and Better
by Graham Jones
UNTIL 1954, MOST PEOPLE BELIEVED that a human being was incapable of running a mile in less than four minutes. But that very year, English miler Roger Bannister proved them wrong.
“Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt,” Bannister is reported to have said afterward. “Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead.” Which goes to show that in sports, as in business, the main obstacle to achieving “the impossible” may be a self-limiting mind-set.
As a sports psychologist, I spent much of my career as a consultant to Olympic and world champions in rowing, swimming, ...