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Book Report: Why Should I Choose You?
Tagged with: adaptive planning, business architecture, Charles Darwin, Core Beliefs, Core Proposition, Core Story, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Hedgehog Concept, Howard Lichtman, Ian Chamandy, Jack Welch, Malcolm Gladwell, Mind Gym, Obliquity, pitching, sales, strategic planning, taglines, The New Yorker, Why Should I Choose You?
Posted in Books, Marketing
Posted in Books, Marketing
Book Report: Born to Run
“That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they’d never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind’s first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on…
Tagged with: athletics, Born to Run, Caballo Blanco, chia fresca, Christopher McDougall, cross-training, Emil Zatopek, Herb Elliot, iskiate, Leadville, Lisa Smith-Batchen, Micah True, Mind Gym, Obliquity, Roger Bannister, running, Scott Jurek, Tarahumara, The Running Man, William James
Posted in Books, Math and Science, Sports
Posted in Books, Math and Science, Sports
When is a coach’s job done?
Every Monday for the past decade or so, I’ve read Peter King‘s Monday Morning Quarterback. Over the years, there’ve been many tidbits that popped out to me, and I’ve shared some of them before on this site: Coaching insights from…
Tagged with: coaching, Dalls Cowboys, football, Jason Garrett, Jeff Stoutland, Mind Gym, MMQB, NFL, Peter King, Philadelphia Eagles, Troy Aikman
Posted in Books, Leadership, Sports
Posted in Books, Leadership, Sports
Two very different champions
Within the past few weeks, both the soccer teams on which I play won their respective league championships. These achievements, while trivial in the grand scheme of life, nevertheless fill me with pride and some satisfaction. It wasn’t so much that…
Tagged with: Exports, Fusion, Grand River Soccer, KDSL, Lee Brooks, Mind Gym, resilience, satisfaction, Tri-City Men's Soccer League
Posted in Everything, Soccer, Sports
Posted in Everything, Soccer, Sports
Living life backward: the power of visualization
“It is said that extraordinary people live their lives backward. They create a future, and then they live into it.” – Gary Mack, in Mind Gym Mind Gym is full of examples of the power of visualization, from the relatively…
Tagged with: ACT, baseball, Dwight Smith, Gary Mack, goals, inspiration, Mind Gym, visualization
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Sports
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Sports
Which voice do you listen to?
“I felt like I had to be perfect to justify my draft status. I became my own worst enemy. I constantly stressed for others’ approval and worried about what they were thinking. I felt like I couldn’t even make the…
Tagged with: Alex Smith, anxiety, Bounce, choices, fear of failure, Gary Mack, Kansas City Chiefs, Matthew Syed, Mind Gym, perfectionism
Posted in Books, Everything, Sports
Posted in Books, Everything, Sports
Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable
choke [verb] (in sports): To fail to perform at a crucial point of a game or contest as a result of nervousness In Part III (“Mind-Set for Success”) of Mind Gym, there’s a chapter called Breathe and Focus that discusses choking in the context of…
Tagged with: Bounce, choking, explicit memory, Gary Mack, Greg Norman, implicit memory, Lou Piniella, Matthew Syed, Mind Gym, performance curve, physiology, Sian Beilock, Steve Davis, The Sports Gene
Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science, Sports
Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science, Sports
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