Mind Games: Determination, Doubt and Lucky Socks: An Insider’s Guide to the Psyc

Vernon, Annie

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Through interviews with leading sports stars and the latest scientific research, ‘Mind Games’ discusses elite sports psychology in a way that is interesting to the watching public, sports fans and sports-haters alike, with Annie drawing on her own first-hand experiences to walk them through this fascinating subject.

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Publish Date: 23/07/2020

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***WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2020 – GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS WRITING***

A fascinating book about the psychology of elite sport? Mind Games explores compelling territory.Don McRae, the Guardian

‘An amazing book that I very much enjoyed.’ Simon Mundie, Don’t Tell Me the Score (BBC Podcast)

‘a fascinating book’ Daily Mail

It’s well known that to reach the top in elite sport, you need to have spent years honing and perfecting your physical ability. However this is only part of the template required to win – the other half is about mind games.

Throughout her career as one of the world’s top athletes, Annie Vernon struggled with existential questions about the purpose of sport in our comfortable, first-world society: Why do we do it? What is it in our psyche that makes us push ourselves to the limit? What allows us to mentally overcome the physical pain?

Now retired from competition, Olympic silver medallist and world champion rower Annie Vernon has decided to look for answers to these questions. Drawing on her personal experiences and interviews with some of the best coaches, athletes and psychologists from across the world of sport – including Lucy Gossage, Katherine Grainger, Matthew Pinsent, Brian Moore, Brian Ching and Dr Steve Peters – Annie discovers the secrets of how athletes train their brains in order to become world beaters.

Annie debunks the myth that elite performers are universally cool, calm and brimming with self-assurance. Through exploring the bits on the inside that nobody can see, Annie instead creates a new understanding of what it takes to be successful in sport and uncovers that, in fact, an elite athlete is not that different from you and me. It’s simply a question of mind games.

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Weight 318 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 23 mm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

xi, 276

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

796.019 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K