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Mental Training for Skydiving and Life
This is a peak performance handbook--for individuals and teams--for skydivers and non-skydivers alike. It’s a "how to" book that teaches practical methods and techniques for designing realistic plans to achieve goals. Best of all it's filled with creative and innovative mental training tools that are simple to use and can be applied immediately. John DeRosalia is a master at motivation and performance enhancement. He’s been training the ‘best of the best’ both in and out of skydiving for over a quarter of a century. The 2 chapters on teamwork alone are invaluable. The chapter Video Games—the Creative use of Visualization and Imagery, is ingenious, extremely effective, and lots of fun. The chapter on Performance Anxiety can make a difference immediately. This book is an exhilarating experience. It can change your life.
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First published February 1, 2001
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July 1, 2018
Tactical book on how to achieve peak performance. Although it is focused on skydiving, it can be applied to other areas of your life.
Although if peak performance is the goal, I would recommend reading other books first, this book added value to me personally in other ways.
First, I liked the tactical and detailed approach. It shared a lot of specific activities and exercises that can be applied to many areas of life. Also, it shows that in order to write a book (and add value with it) you don't need to be "creating new knowledge", you might add value by re-purposing and put together different pieces that already exist.
Some of my highlights:
"Discipline is no excuses. That doesn't mean perfection, but it does mean no excuses. It means owning your behavior, acknowledging your mistakes, recognizing lapses in self-control, admitting when you've fallen short on your promises to yourself and others, and then doing something about it."
"If anyone treated me the way I treat myself, I'd beat him senseless."
Although if peak performance is the goal, I would recommend reading other books first, this book added value to me personally in other ways.
First, I liked the tactical and detailed approach. It shared a lot of specific activities and exercises that can be applied to many areas of life. Also, it shows that in order to write a book (and add value with it) you don't need to be "creating new knowledge", you might add value by re-purposing and put together different pieces that already exist.
Some of my highlights:
"Discipline is no excuses. That doesn't mean perfection, but it does mean no excuses. It means owning your behavior, acknowledging your mistakes, recognizing lapses in self-control, admitting when you've fallen short on your promises to yourself and others, and then doing something about it."
"If anyone treated me the way I treat myself, I'd beat him senseless."
April 21, 2020
Book about life, peak performance and lastly skydiving. It's one of those books that open my mind to things that I didn't notice about myself, and provided a framework for me to work on them. It is a quick read it's under a hundred and twenty pages, but the true benefits of the book with only come if you practice the techniques that he mentions. Overall I like the book.
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