Win the Inside Game
How to Move from Surviving to Thriving, and Free Yourself Up to Perform
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- USD 15.99
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- USD 15.99
Descripción editorial
In this highly anticipated book, the bestselling author of Do Hard Things Steve Magness—“one of the giants of modern thinking about high performance” (Alex Hutchinson)—flips the script on the pursuit of excellence, shifting our thinking from high-stress survival mode to fulfillment-oriented thriving mode to creates sustainable success at the highest level, in what Amy Morin, author of 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do calls “an essential read for anyone interested in self-discovery and meaningful success.”
Striving is in our nature. We all want to perform at our best when it matters most. But in today's world, many of us feel lost, isolated, and overwhelmed. We're paralyzed by fear of failure and crippled by insecurities. We know we’re capable of more, yet no matter how hard we try, we feel stuck. We’ve been sold the wrong path to success and personal fulfillment.
Renowned performance scientist and bestselling author Steve Magness reveals a new path to sustainable success. In Win the Inside Game, Magness argues that excellence and fulfillment are not mutually exclusive; we can and should seek both. When we measure our worth by our achievements, cement our identities to our careers, and sacrifice our well-being in the pursuit of external validation, it backfires. We default to survival mode, protecting and defending ourselves instead of being free to fulfill our potential.
In this, his most personal book yet, Magness draws on his vast wealth of experience as an Olympic coach and whistleblower, highly popular consultant, and premier expert on performance, as well as scientific findings, interviews, and case studies, to provide a three-part framework to help us learn to focus on what really matters and achieve success.
Be—Clarity on Who You AreDo—Clarity in Your PursuitsBelong—Clarity on Where and How You Fit In
Redefining the trend carved by bestsellers such as Be Useful, Range, and Hidden Potential, Win the Inside Game seeks not only excellence but inner and personal growth. In realigning our focus from something externally motivated and fear-based to internally motivated and driven by personal conviction, Magness provides the tools for us to free ourselves up to perform and ultimately achieve a fuller sense of self and purpose.
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Performance coach Magness (Do Hard Things) delivers a pileup of clichés in this vacuous program for adopting a more positive mindset. Encouraging readers not to beat themselves up over disappointments, he warns that competitors who view a loss as a negative reflection on their character are more likely to produce higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol after a defeat, which has been found to worsen performance in subsequent competitions. Magness's contention that valuing external rewards ("achievements, money, status") over pursuing intrinsic motivation makes people miserable is hardly novel, and his explanation that doing so amplifies "our threat system" while undermining "our contentment system" provides only a superficial representation of the science. Elsewhere, Magness cites a study that found subjects judged hills to be less steep when accompanied by a friend to make the obvious point that people with meaningful social relationships are "healthier, happier, more resilient" than loners. Other claims are lacking in evidence, as when he asserts that a poor sense of self "is linked to materialism and compulsive buying," and his framework for achieving "sustainable excellence" by gaining clarity on "who you are" and "how you fit in" is as vague about its intended outcome as it is about its process. This misses the mark.
