The Achievement Zone: 8 Skills for Winning All the Time from the Playing Field to the Boardroom - Hardcover

Murphy, Shane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399140964 ISBN 13: 9780399140969

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1996

Synopsis

A sports psychologist introduces a step-by-step, eight-point program designed to help readers perform well under pressure in a competitive environment.

About this title

About the Author:

Shane Murphy, Ph.D., is President-Elect of the Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology of the American Psychological Association.

From Library Journal:

Sport psychologist Murphy applies his years of experience working with athletes to the world of business, explaining that, if applied to the technical aspects of a challenge, the eight mind/body skills he lists here would enhance the probability of success. He fully develops the mind/body skills of action focus, creative thinking, productive analysis, keeping cool, concentration, emotional power, energizing, and consistency with numerous practical, step-by-step approaches. For example, Murphy suggests that rather than focusing on a goal of losing weight, one should focus instead on any number of more specific actions, such as reducing daily fat intake. Murphy's work nicely complements Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's more cerebral Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (LJ 3/15/90) in a useful guide to a new way of approaching life and especially athletic training. As with any self-help work, the difference lies in the commitment to following this sound advice. Recommended for academic libraries supporting a sport or business psychology curriculum.?Dale Farris, Groves, Tex.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0399140964
• ISBN 13: 9780399140969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 262