Game Psychology

Courage Over Confidence offers a new approach to conquering the mental game of sports. Written for competitive young athletes, as well as professionals and Olympians, it is also a game changer for coaches and parents looking for ways to further help their aspiring athletes. In this book, renowned clinical and sport psychologist Dr. Mitchell Greene explodes one of the field’s most common and malicious myths—that confidence is a prerequisite for athletic success.

Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about how you win. Data has now suffused almost every aspect of how football is played, coached, scouted and consumed. But it’s not the algorithms or new metrics that have made this change, it’s the people behind them. This is the story of modern football’s great data revolution and the group of curious, entrepreneurial personalities who zealously believed in its potential to transform the game.

This is no ordinary book about the mental side of golf because what makes this book distinctly unique is that it answers the three questions that have baffled sports psychologists for many years. What is the zone? How do you get there? Why can you play so well when you are there? This knowledge will empower you and automatically take your golf up to another level as you see how easy it is to intentionally put yourself into the zone. Now you know how it all works there will be no more waiting for the magical day to come along because now you will be in control thanks to the ten specifically ...

“A manipulative woman does not care about the concept of boundaries. She is relentlessly in the pursuit of what she wants, and she has no regard for who she hurts along the way.” - The Minister Of Manhood Since a young girl, women have learned how to manipulate her way into what she wants out of the world. This is the advantage of being a girl in the world. It started in her home through the manipulation of her parents and siblings, then out into the world with the manipulation of her friends and boyfriends. As a young child a woman’s manipulation techniques started with crying and ...

Predictably Irrational meets Moneyball in ESPN veteran writer and statistical analyst Keith Law's iconoclastic look at the numbers game of baseball, proving why some of the most trusted stats are surprisingly wrong, explaining what numbers actually work, and exploring what the rise of Big Data means for the future of the sport.

Master your mind on the court • Win the psychological game of tennis Why do some players win the big points, while others choke in the clutch? Why do some players rise above their physical limitations to win tournaments, while other, more talented players bow out in the first round? The exceptional players have a secret weapon: They’ve mastered the psychology of tennis. They know how to watch their thoughts, and take control of their mind. They know their ego is not a friend, but an enemy on the court. They also have personal insight about how their mind works, and they know how to ...

“Learn How To Play The Game, Or Get Played By The Game.” Women are masters of illusion! And good men get fooled by a big butt and a pretty smile everyday because it’s so easy for a woman to look attractive with BBL’s, makeup, fake boobs and revealing outfits. It’s easy for you to get confused because they all look the same on the outside, but in reality they aren’t the same on the inside. When you accept a woman into your life you get more than her body, you get her mind. And if her mind isn’t attractive, it’s only a matter of time before her body loses its attractiveness to...

Science confirms the distinction between the biological brain and the conscious mind. Each day, a game of mind versus matter plays out on a field defined by the problems we must solve. Most are routine, and don't demand a more mindful approach. It's when we're faced with more difficult challenges that our thinking becomes vulnerable to brain patterns that can lead us astray.

On April 18, 1981, a ball game sprang eternal. What began as a modestly attended minor-league game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings became not only the longest ever played in baseball history, but something else entirely. The first pitch was thrown after dusk on Holy Saturday, and for the next eight hours the night seemed to suspend its participants between their collective pasts and futures, between their collective sorrows and joys....

Did you know that anyone can learn to achieve flow? This book shows you how. Discover the secret weapon of champions: Flow. Unlike a rare talent, anyone can learn to cultivate this state and access peak performance in their sport. Create the optimal conditions for cultivating flow in your own athletic career. Cultivating the flow state in sport can be a powerful way to improve your performance and achieve a greater sense of satisfaction and enjoyment in your athletic pursuits.

Generating and executing great ideas is the key to staying ahead in a rapidly changing world. It seems so basic. Why is it so hard to actually get right? According to innovation expert Phil McKinney, the real problem is that we're teaching people to ask the wrong questions about their businesses - or none at all. There has to be a better way. In Beyond the Obvious, McKinney will help you use his proven FIRE (Focus, Ideation, Rank, Execution) Method to dig deeper and get back to asking the right questions - the ones all companies must ask to survive.

In this unique book, one of football’s greatest cult players reflects on the travails of the sport and draws upon his own experience to offer an honest assessment on one of its final remaining taboos: mental health. The most difficult position in football? Being a goalkeeper. That’s what they say, right? You must be mad to stand between those posts and bat away shots and crosses all game long. Neville Southall should know. He was the goalkeeper for one of the best teams of the 1980s and became an icon of the game during his 20-year career between the sticks.

Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming the boring, ordinary world around us into one of endless, playful possibilities. The key to this playful mindset lies in discovering the secret truth of fun and games.

Get your head in the game. Master Your Tennis Game serves up quick mental techniques, tactics, and tips for boosting your overall performance and beating your opponents. Train your brain and be the best tennis player you can be. Concise, fun, and easy to listen to, this book offers 50 practical and actionable methods that show you how to stay calm and concentrate during any tennis game. Even if your rival is tough competition, outsmart them with these targeted mental approaches.

Automatic Golf: Hypnotherapy for Improving Your Game is a guide to help a golfer create the necessary frame of mind for improving his or her game. It emphasizes the mental aspect of the game. We have all watched a golfer take his or her practice swing and have seen how very different it often is from the swing that is actually put on the ball. Why the difference? The difference is mental. The mind, with all its doubts, fears, and feelings of unworthiness, often gets in the way of the golfer when he or she steps up to the tee.

Discover the skills and knowledge you need to succeed and elevate your trading game to the next level. With Stock Trading Psychology for Intelligent Traders, you can turn your trading dreams into a reality.

Do you want to play your BEST TENNIS and WIN MORE MATCHES ? Then ''Boost Your Tennis Game'' book is exactly what you need! This book will help you to enjoy tennis like never before. You will learn many useful tips, drills, strategies and mindsets used by Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and other tennis professionals to play their best and win more matches. In this book certified tennis coach and ATP ranked tennis player Rihards Emulins shares his own playing and coaching experience, as well as dozens of easy to implement tips about all main aspects of tennis: Technique Fitness Strategy ...

This unique and innovative golf instruction approach will increase your distance, cut strokes, lower scores, and effortlessly improve your golf game without changes to your grip, swing, or clubs.

Discover the winning secrets of top professional tennis players...and finally do some winning yourself! Have you just started learning how to play tennis? Worried about looking like a fool on the court, barely able to win a single point? If you’re serious about improving your game and being able to play toe-to-toe against seasoned players, here’s the perfect solution for you. This audiobook for new tennis players will provide you with all the knowledge you need to not just play the game...but excel in it.

Stop leaving your sports performances down to chance. Implement our 5 simple science-backed mental toughness strategies and start seeing improvements straight away. Expertly written with real-world advice and key psychological insights, The Mental Resilience Method for Young Athletes reveals 5 powerful science-based techniques that will propel your athletic performances into the realm of the champions.