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The Journey Beyond Fear: Leverage the Three Pillars of Positivity to Build Your Success
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The Journey Beyond Fear: Leverage the Three Pillars of Positivity to Build Your Success

by John Hagel
May 2021
Beginner content levelBeginner
272 pages
4h 56m
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from The Journey Beyond Fear: Leverage the Three Pillars of Positivity to Build Your Success

CHAPTER 7

WHY THE PASSION OF THE EXPLORER IS SO POWERFUL

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 ...

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ISBN: 9781264268412