May 2021
Beginner
272 pages
4h 56m
English
About a decade ago, in an effort to discover ways to overcome performance pressure, I undertook a study of the environments in which people achieved the most extreme and sustained improvements in performance. The best way to address performance pressure, after all, is to improve continually and accelerate that performance improvement over time. I explored many different environments, including extreme sports like big-wave surfing, extreme skiing, and solo rock climbing, in which participants were constantly moving beyond what many had come to believe were the ultimate limits. I also ventured into online war game environments, like World of Warcraft, where if you make the wrong move, you ...