From authors: Joe De Sena, Ben Askren, and David Sacks Ph.D. Extreme Balance involves embracing seemingly contradictory principles to excel both in sports and life. These paradoxes, such as caring deeply while keeping things in perspective, focusing on the process while keeping an eye on the outcome, and using your head while trusting your instincts, are essential for peak performance.
Paradoxical Principles That Make You a Champion
EXTREME BALANCE
In the world of elite sports, victory is often attributed to physical and athletic prowess alone. But what if the key to unlocking your full potential lies not in your physical abilities, but in your mindset?
What is extreme balance?
Paradoxical principles
what you’ll learn
- Mastering the Balance Between Passion and Perspective: Discover how to channel commitment and passion to drive success while keeping a healthy perspective to reduce anxiety and maintain resilience.
- Effective Process and Outcome Focus: Learn to concentrate on daily actions and improvements for enhanced performance while keeping long-term goals in sight for sustained motivation and direction.
- Optimizing Mental and Physical Preparation: Understand the importance of deliberate practice, including goal-oriented training and immediate feedback, to develop expertise and maintain a growth mindset.
- Building Resilience and Managing Pain: Develop the mental toughness to push through discomfort and the self-awareness to recognize when to rest and recover, balancing productive effort with injury prevention.
- Leveraging Support Networks: Appreciate the value of self-reliance in individual efforts while also recognizing the role of coaches, teammates, and support systems in enhancing overall performance.
- Adapting to Unpredictable Challenges: Prepare meticulously while staying flexible and open to change, learning to adapt effectively to unexpected situations both in sports and life.
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