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The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
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Matt Fitzgerald · 301 pages
"Fitzgerald puts you into the pulse-pounding action of more than a dozen epic races from running, cycling, triathlon, XTERRA, and rowing with thrilling race reports and revealing post-race interviews with the elites. Their own words reinforce what the research has found: strong mental fitness lets us approach our true physical limits, giving us an edge over physically stronger competitors. Each ch
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami · 179 pages
Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success
Matthew Syed · 312 pages
In this thoughtful, provocative book, a former Olympian persuasively demonstrates how sports offer powerful and often overlooked tools with which to explore fundamental subjects, including biology, morality, globalization, culture, gender, race, and economics.
Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
Rick Hanson · 304 pages
The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance
Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes, Catherine McCarthy
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
Byron Katie, Steven Mitchell · 289 pages
Out of nowhere, like a fresh breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice on what to believe, comes Byron Katie and what she calls "The Work." In the midst of a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed, and over a ten-year period sank further into rage, despair, and thoughts of suicide. Then one morning, she woke up in a state of absolute joy, filled with the realization of how her own suff
The Confidence Gap
Russ Harris · 304 pages
The Art of Happiness
Dalai Lama XIV, Howard C. Cutler · 322 pages
Summary:One of the world's greatest spiritual leaders teams up with a psychiatrist to share, for the first time, how he achieved his hard-won serenity and how readers can attain the same inner peace
Humor Me: How Laughing More Can Make You Present, Creative, Connected, and Happy
Chris Duffy · 272 pages
Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment
Tal Ben-Shahar · 216 pages
Can YouLearn to BeHappy?YES . . . according to the teacher of HarvardUniversity's most popular and life-changingcourse. One out of every five Harvard studentshas lined up to hear Tal Ben-Shahar'sinsightful and inspiring lectures on thatever-elusive state: HAPPINESS.HOW?Grounded in the revolutionary "positive psychology" movement,Ben-Shahar ingeniously combines scientific studies, scholarly researc
Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
Daniel Goleman · 320 pages
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
M. Scott Peck · 316 pages
Confronting and solving problems is a painful process which most of us attempt to avoid. Avoiding resolution results in greater pain and an inability to grow both mentally and spiritually. Drawing heavily on his own professional experience, Dr M. Scott Peck, a psychiatrist, suggests ways in which facing our difficulties - and suffering through the changes - can enable us to reach a higher level of
The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
Steven Kotler · 234 pages
"An exploration of how extreme athletes are able to break the limits of ultimate human performance and what we can learn from their mastery of the state of consciousness known as "flow." "--
The Gifts of Imperfection : 10th Anniversary Edition
Brené Brown · 208 pages
Invisible Power: Insight Principles at Work: Everyone's Hidden Inner Capacity
Ken Manning · 270 pages
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 314 pages
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state called *flow*. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates the ways this positive state can b
Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
Mark Epstein · 200 pages
For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego. We are taught that the ideal is a strong, individuated self, constructed and reinforced over a lifetime. But Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein has found a different way. Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart shows us that happiness doesn’t come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material o
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Dale Carnegie · 319 pages
Stop Worrying ... Slow Down... Enjoy Life! Dale Carnegie's proven techniques have helped millions to adopt new mental attitudes leading to security and happiness, teaching them to break the worry habit —forever: • Practical, tested formulas for conquering anxiety • How to eliminate 50 percent of business worries immediately • How to reduce financial worries • How to turn criticism to yo
The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Gretchen Rubin · 301 pages
Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project.In this lively and compelling account of that year, Rubin carves out her place alongside the a
The Mental Game of Poker
Jared Tendler · 241 pages
The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Sonja Lyubomirsky · 366 pages
Drawing on her own groundbreaking research with thousands of men and women, research psychologist and University of California professor of psychology Sonja Lyubomirsky has pioneered a detailed yet easy-to-follow plan to increase happiness in our day-to-day lives-in the short term and over the long term. The How of Happiness is a different kind of happiness book, one that offers a comprehensive gu
How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
David Richo · 276 pages
The Art of Being
Erich Fromm · 137 pages
"Between 1974 and 1976, while working on the book To Have Or to Be? at his home in Locarno, Switzerland, the aged Erich Fromm wrote far more manuscript and chapters than were actually used in the book, which was published in 1976. Some of these chapters are contained in the present volume. They deal entirely with the "steps toward being" that the individual can take in order to learn the Art of Be