The Confident Mind

Total Confidence When You Need to Perform

Dr. Nate Zinsser

• Editore: Custom House
• Anno: 2022
• ISBN:
  9780063014855
• Argomento: Psychologie
• Categoria: Psychologie du sport

Believe and be unshakable.

The Director of West Point's influential Performance Psychology Program shares the secrets of mental toughness and self-belief in this definitive guide to mastering confidence, the key to performance in any field.

Dr. Nate Zinsser has spent his career training the minds of the U.S. Military Academy's cadets as they prepare to lead and perform when the stakes are the very highest—on the battlefield. Alongside this work, he has coached world-class athletes including a Super Bowl MVP, numerous Olympic medalists, professional ballerinas, NHL All-Stars, and college All-Americans, teaching them to overcome pressure and succeed on the biggest stages.

Dr. Zinsser has come to understand that one single trait above all others makes peak performance possible: confidence, or the belief in oneself. Whether your mission involves leading a platoon into combat, returning an opponent's serve, or delivering a sales pitch to a roomful of skeptical prospects, you perform best when you are so certain about your abilities that your flow of fear, doubts, and confusion slows to the barest minimum. What's more, Dr. Zinsser has come to understand that confidence is a skill that can be taught, improved, and applied by anyone to enhance nearly every aspect of our lives and careers.

Now, for the first time, Dr. Zinsser distills his research and years of experience, offering a fascinating guide to the science of confidence and providing readers with a practical, step-by-step program to best harness their belief in themselves to achieve success in any field. The Confident Mind is a complete guide to confidence: how to understand it, how to build it, how to protect it, and how to rely upon it when your performance matters most.

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: What Confidence Is and Isn’t
• Chapter One: Accepting What You Cannot Change
• Chapter Two: Building Your Bank Account #1: Filtering Your Past for Valuable Deposits
• Chapter Three: Building Your Bank Account #2: Constructive Thinking in the Present
• Chapter Four: Building Your Bank Account #3: Envisioning Your Ideal Future
• Chapter Five: Protecting Your Confidence Every Day, No Matter What
• Chapter Six: Deciding to Be Different
• Chapter Seven: Entering the Arena with Confidence
• Chapter Eight: Playing a Confident Game from Start to Finish
• Chapter Nine: Ensuring the Next First Victory: Reflect, Plan, and Commit—or What? So What? and Now What?
• Epilogue: The Bus Driver, the General, and You
• Acknowledgments
• Appendix I: Performance Imagery Script Sample
• Appendix II: After Action Review Worksheets
• Reference Notes
• Index
• About the Author
• Copyright
• About the Publisher