Top Gun Performance

From the Cockpit to the Boardroom

By: Ted Carter, Jack A. Stark

Narrated by: Kirk Winkler

Top Gun Performance can help listeners learn to achieve happiness, success, and health in school, sports, work, and life. Ted Carter, a Top Gun graduate, and Jack Stark, a performance psychologist and psychotherapist, have observed, commanded, and treated the behaviors of thousands of individuals. Both understand the need to pursue a specific lifestyle to perform at the very top. Both are tuned in to what people want out of life, what is getting in their way, and what they can do to overcome the mental and physical obstacles keeping them from achieving a Top Gun performance in all areas of their lives.

Carter and Stark use their personal and professional histories to teach listeners the psychological and mental performance tools they can use on a daily basis to meet the challenges they face. The authors share behind-the-scenes stories, techniques, and analysis to provide listeners with a blueprint for building their own exceptional performance. Reviewing their careers in helping other people obtain successful outcomes, Carter and Stark offer a program listeners can use in their own lives.

The book is published by University of Nebraska Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

©2025 Ted Carter and Jack Stark (P)2025 Redwood Audiobooks

Critic reviews

“One-of-a-kind book with amazing takeaways on every page.” (Ward Carroll, author of the Punk’s Trilogy)

“Ted Carter...is a wonderful and gifted leader!” (John Dalton, seventieth secretary of the U.S. Navy and author of At the Helm)

“Stark is very innovative, and his advice can help almost any individual or organization get to a higher level of proficiency.” (Tom Osborne, former Husker head football coach and U.S. congressman)