Finding Your Zone: Ten Core Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance in Sports and Life by Michael Lardon, David Leadbetter (Foreword by)
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- Pub. Date: June 2008
- 192pp
- Sales Rank: 18,287
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: June 2008
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Format: Paperback, 192pp
- Sales Rank: 18,287
- ISBN-13: 9780399534270
- ISBN: 039953427X
Synopsis
The first research-based program to offer concise, clear ways to realize your best performance.
As a therapist, physician, and mental coach, Dr. Michael Lardon has dedicated his career to helping athletes understand and better achieve peak performance. In Finding Your Zone, he shares with readers what he's discovered about reaching the state in which "thoughts and actions are occurring in complete synchronicity," and how this state is accessible to all, not just the few.
In ten key lessons—illustrated by personal anecdotes from his clients—Lardon teaches readers how to access the zone not only in sports but in all aspects of their lives, by understanding how to:
• Transform desire into will
• Channel emotions to victory
• Trust instincts and keep it simple
• Conquer fear through acceptance
• Perform under pressure
Eric Heiden
Dr. Lardon's book is without gimmicks or motivational hyperbole. It is the dictum that true champions follow. (Eric Heiden, five-time Olympic gold medal-winning speed skater)
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Michael Lardon, M.D., is a sports psychiatrist who has worked with many well-known PGA, NFL, and Olympic athletes. He is a spokesperson for national media including CNN and MSNBC, and is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego.
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ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!by GGarcia
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December 08, 2008:
I picked this book up in San Diego and read it in one sitting on the plane ride back to the East Coast. I usually sleep on cross country flights, but I could not put this book down. It is a great read, full of inspiring stories and anecdotes.
Dr. Lardon's insight and guidance into how to achieve peak performance in any aspect of life, not just in sports, is worthy our everybody's attention. Having listened to a myriad of motivational speakers over my career and read countless books on the subject, Dr. Lardon's lessons are elegant in their simplicity and applicability to everyday life.
As a former athlete, I felt those days when everything I did was perfect -when I was "in the zone". As a professional, husband and father, the experience is the same, just in a different setting. Finding the zone is an amazing feeling ... being able to experience it on a regular basis escapes most people. This book can help us all to experience it just a little bit more often.
A very worthwhile read!
Dr. Lardon Hits One Out of the Park!by medidoc
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December 07, 2008: Finding Your Zone is a must read for anyone interested in becoming the best they can be. I found the book very inspirational, especially the section about dreams and how they can translate to really being your best. Dr. Lardon uses evidence based methods in psychology to help athletes and non-athletes achieve their full potential. In a very Buddhist like manner, focus on the moment's activity helps one achieve the Zone. I was enthralled with his many examples of actual world class athletes descriptions of their moments of perfection, and how they went on to use the same techniques in life after sports. I will be giving this book to my children and friends to use for their own pursuits and to achieve their own Zone. Bravo Dr. Lardon for achieving your Zone in this wonderful book.
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