The Confident Mind : A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance - Nathaniel Zinsser

The Confident Mind

A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance

By: Nathaniel Zinsser

Paperback | 12 April 2022

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The First Victory is a complete guide to confidence for professionals in any field: how to understand it, how to build it, how to protect it and how to apply it when your performance matters. Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu once observed: "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." No athlete, performer or professional can step into the arena and win without first achieving victory over doubt, worry, and uncertainty. The First Victory distils Nathaniel Zinsser's years of experience helping Army elites and top-tier Olympic and professional athletes achieve their "first victories" with a step-by-step logical approach. The idea that confidence is elusive and intangible will be removed, its components broken down into learnable steps and the process of applying those steps when it's time to step into the spotlight clearly described.

Throughout the book, readers will hear from champion athletes such as Michael Phelps, from Army combat veterans, and from less well-known but equally valuable sources, including the first West Point cadet to run a sub-four-minute mile. Zinsser shares how this phenomenal athletes and performers have handled unexpected twists, turns, and setbacks and how the reader can adopt the same mental strategies to control what can be controlled and to be unfazed by what can't.

About the Author

Nate Zinsser has directed the Performance Psychology Program at the United States Military Academy for more than 27 years, providing state of the art training in the psychology of competition, the foundations for confidence and trust, stress management and more. His curriculum has been extended to twelve US Army posts nationwide where it is used to train Army units in preparation for deployment and to support wounded warriors in their recovery. In his private practice, Zinsser has worked with ballerinas, neurosurgeons, and congressional candidates, and currently teaches individuals for both the NHL and NFL, including, for the past 11 seasons, New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning. He has done training for Staples and UBS and presented to faculty and students at universities such as Princeton and Vassar.

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