Roger Seip > Quotes

“You don't need to be 100 percent better to see a 100 percent improvement. You just need to be a little better. There's a concept in play here called the winning edge. It means that a small change in the right place makes a huge difference in the end result. In golf, a 1-mm difference in the angle of the club head means the difference between “middle of the fairway” and “you can't find your ball.” In a horse race, the winning horse often wins “by a nose,” but that split second is usually a fourfold increase in prize money. In sales, the tiniest perceived difference between competitors can mean the difference between receiving all of the business or none.”
― Roger Seip, Train Your Brain For Success: Read Smarter, Remember More, and Break Your Own Records

“more clearly you can picture the results you want, the more likely you are to deliver the performance that produces those results.”
― Roger Seip, Train Your Brain For Success: Read Smarter, Remember More, and Break Your Own Records

“The lesson for these cyclists is this: You think you are tired from working too hard. That’s only part of it. You are actually tired from not taking the proper amount of time to recover.”
― Roger Seip, Master Your Mind: Counterintuitive Strategies to Refocus and Re-Energize Your Runaway Brain

“Stop trying to “fight through” to get what you want. Stop ignoring reality. Start rethinking how you approach things. Start putting the appropriate amount of time, effort, and mental bandwidth into not only working smarter but also thinking smarter. Thinking smarter means less small thinking and more big thinking, less overthinking, and more relaxing.”
― Roger Seip, Master Your Mind: Counterintuitive Strategies to Refocus and Re-Energize Your Runaway Brain