Book description
Learn the lessons of elite athletes to reach your full potential
From acclaimed psychologist Anthony Klarica, The Performance Mindset: 7 steps to success in sport and life reveals the lessons of high-performing athletes and shows how you can build strategies to apply for greater success in sport, business or in your personal life.
High performers are made, not born. High performance occurs through putting a careful and deliberate focus on growing mindset, and science proves that high-performers intentionally build these mindset skills and habits to maximise their opportunities. Talent and hard work are simply not enough.
Through candid, in-depth interviews and stories from a wide variety of Australian athletes, you’ll learn how to:
- harness and maintain your motivation
- become resilient
- stay focussed and present
- lead yourself and others
- protect your mental health and wellbeing.
Natural talent doesn’t necessarily equal high performance. With The Performance Mindset: 7 steps to success in sport and life, you’ll discover how to unleash your inner-champion and realise your full and unbridled potential, whether in sport, in business, or in life.
Table of contents
- COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PREFACE
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INTRODUCTION: MADE NOT BORN
- Laying a mindset foundation
- Early success does not guarantee future success
- The mindset to keep going
- Attitude nurtures talent
- You grow in the direction of your focus
- Is talent overrated?
- Assessing mindset variables
- Enjoyment matters
- How much practice?
- Many different paths
- Patience and persistence
- Early bolters and late bloomers
- Reasons for leaving
- Tough transition
- McDonald's to Olympics
- Maintaining discipline
- Environments that help performance
- Talent doesn't coach you
- Summary
-
STEP 1: HARNESS YOUR MOTIVATION
- The seven summits
- Action ignites motivation
- Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers
- Multiple motivators
- Competence, autonomy and relatedness
- Engagement
- Choices and sacrifices
- No one is superhuman
- Goal setting
- Benchmarking
- Expectation and motivation
- Rewards and positive feedback
- Self‐positivity and celebration
- Motivational dynamics
- Environment and culture
- Task and ego
- Managing motivational challenges
- Passion, meaning and purpose
- Summary
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STEP 2: BOOST YOUR RESILIENCE
- Mat's mantra: Always keep riding
- Aim to be resilient
- Break it down into smaller parts
- Ride the roller‐coaster with multiple resilience strategies
- Resilience grows with an open mind
- A learning approach to building resilience
- Keep going: injuries, disappointments and setbacks
- Learning to lose
- Life challenges
- Explanatory style
- Optimism helps resilience
- Reflecting, reviewing, debriefing and feedback
- Team resilience
- Navigating transition and other vulnerable times
- Adaptive perfectionism and flexibility
- Summary
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STEP 3: SHARPEN YOUR FOCUS
- Self‐talk: you are what you think
- ‘The little voice’
- Technical, tactical and emotional self‐talk
- Positive, negative or neutral and curious self‐talk
- Mantras
- Internal or external focus
- Narrow or broad: switching focus
- Getting in the zone or flow
- Self‐regulation
- Secondary errors
- Being in the present
- Attention to detail
- Focus on what you can control
- Visual and physical cues
- Body language
- Use of time
- Chunking and race plans
- Routines and clarity
- Summary
- STEP 4: CHAMPION YOUR LEADERSHIP
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STEP 5: FOSTER YOUR CULTURE
- Culture in practice
- Thinking, decisions and behaviour
- High‐performance environments
- Individual athlete and coach influence on culture
- Cultural consistency
- Psychological safety
- Learn and grow
- Emotional intelligence
- Relationships and communication
- Mastery climate
- The New Zealand All Blacks
- Building culture
- Challenges to culture
- Building a good culture is hard; keeping a good culture is harder
- Summary
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STEP 6: PROTECT YOUR WELLBEING
- No one is immune
- Find the positive
- Person first, athlete second
- Athlete‐centred environments
- Look beyond the behaviour
- Wellbeing and mental health
- Destigmatising wellbeing and mental health
- Incidence of wellbeing and mental health concerns in sport
- Prevention is better than cure
- Self‐appreciation, self‐permission, self‐acceptance and self‐compassion
- Gratitude and kindness
- Journaling
- Sport relationship and identity
- Taking action
- Help‐seeking
- The journey and narrative
- Recovery, rest and sleep
- Cognitive behaviour therapy and thinking traps
- Environment, thinking and doing
- Mindfulness and ACT
- Diaphragmatic breathing
- Supports and mentors
- Wellbeing programs and data
- Wellbeing checklist
- Summary
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STEP 7: EXECUTE YOUR PERFORMANCE
- Behind the scenes in Rome
- Psychological characteristics and personality
- Mental skills of high performers
- Individual mindset plans
- Lifestyle
- Performance platform
- Confidence and competence
- Imagery and visualisation
- Mental skills programs
- Mental skills for juniors
- Learn competitiveness
- Maximising effort: intrinsic and extrinsic strategies
- Clutch and flow
- Set up for sub‐two‐hour marathon speed
- Create and execute a simple plan
- Great performances
- Embracing new situations and challenges
- Meaning contributes to performance
- Strengths win battles
- Managing performance anxiety and nerves
- Managing nerves through reframing
- Taking control of nerves
- Optimism and positivity
- Many paths to high performance
- Summary
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
Product information
- Title: The Performance Mindset
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2022
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9780730394686
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