High Performance Psychology

Famous three-time Grand Slam winner Arthur Ashe pointed out that many in sports fall victim to “paralysis by analysis”. Athletes on any level can experience the pain of overthinking and sabotaging their performance. Blame many traditional methods of teaching and training. How can we train smarter, not harder? If only our body and mind could perform in a way that’s more natural and instinctive. The best athletes have this quality, but many feel it is simply unattainable for them. I assure you it is not.

You want to get more out of yourself. You want to know how to take your performance to the next level. You want to uncover secrets to elite performance. You’re in the right place, but the path ahead is not what you think. Mark Mathieson outlines the nine key lessons that enable you to reconnect with your life to take advantage of the hidden, wild systems all around you. Mark will show you how to master these skills to develop grit and passion to re-wild your existence in a way that leads to sustainable high performance.

Human performance is far more than results, metrics, or annual evaluations. It is a living phenomenon that emerges from the interaction between motivation, clarity, habits, relationships, culture, and organizational structure. This book proposes a modern and deeply human approach to understanding, measuring, and developing performance. Psychology of Performance for Organizations integrates more than twenty scientific theories with the findings of Google’s Project Aristotle, offering a comprehensive model that explains why some individuals thrive at work, why certain teams achieve ...

LOCK IN: The 30-Day Mental Game Playbook That Turns Nervous, Self-Doubting Athletes Into Focused, Confident Competitors Just 5 minutes a day. No lectures. No boring theory. Just short, science-backed drills any 12- to 18-year-old athlete can do in their room, in the car, or right before they take the field. You have watched it happen. Your athlete has the talent. They put in the hours in the gym, the pool, the field. But the moment the pressure turns up, something breaks. They freeze. They overthink. They come home after a loss and spiral into "I'm just not good enough." You cannot buy them...

Best-selling author Denis Waitley, in conversation with Dan Strutzel, offers timeless and timely advice on how to apply his philosophy to the digital age and attain personal and professional excellence today.

Build organizations where employees feel truly safe to learn, contribute, and challenge the status quo. The proven practical guide to psychological safety is now expanded with updated research and powerful new frameworks and tools. Psychological safety—the belief that you can speak up without...

As one of Britain's best-respected sports presenters, Jake Humphrey has witnessed first-hand the highs and lows of some of the most remarkable athletes on earth. And in his multimillion-download podcast, High Performance, he teams up with Professor Damian Hughes to examine the secrets of the world's highest-performing people - in sport, in business and in life.

Nobody wants to fail. But in highly complex organizations, success can happen only when we confront our mistakes, learn from our own version of a black box, and create a climate where it’s safe to fail. 　 We all have to endure failure from time to time, whether it’s underperforming at a...

The Athlete’s Ascent shows how you can harness the wisdom of martial and Zen arts to develop the profound connection between mind, body and breathing that leads to the coveted flow state. Drawing on a lifetime of deep practice, Jayne Storey has streamlined centuries-old disciplines – including Tai Chi and Zazen meditation – into a simple, proven and trusted Performance Practice that helps both amateur and professional athletes ascend to higher levels of enjoyment and performance.

What if your results are not determined by your circumstances… but by your internal programming? Quantum Mindset reveals how to reprogram your subconscious mind, raise your success frequency, and align your thoughts with wealth, abundance, and limitless growth. Most people live on mental autopilot — repeating inherited beliefs about money, success, and possibility. But science and psychology now confirm that your brain can be rewired. Your identity can be upgraded. Your results can be transformed. In this powerful guide, Jef Benson combines mindset mastery, subconscious reprogramming, ...

Yet, millions of people try to reprogram their minds for massive wealth and power while lying in bed, listening to nature sounds, and drifting off to sleep. This is the "Sleepwalker’s Error." And it is the reason 99% of the subliminal community remains broke. Subliminal Audio: The Science of Sonic Dominance exposes the lie. Triple A. Tanzanite shatters the "New Age" myth that relaxation is the gateway to change. Drawing on neuroscience, cognitive load theory, and the biology of the "Critical Factor," this book proves that the only path to true neuroplasticity is High-Arousal Engagement. ...

The Architecture of Pressure: A Clinical and Zen Masterclass in High-Stakes Performance [A High-Impact One-Hour Masterclass / Kindle Short Read] Panic is not a psychological failing. It is a biological equation. And you are about to learn how to solve it. For decades, we have fundamentally misunderstood stress. We treat it as a modern disease to be medicated away or a weakness to be hidden. But step onto a multi-million-dollar trading floor, the 18th green of a championship, or the final table of the World Series of Poker, and a different reality emerges. In the crucible of high-stakes ...

Your mindset—and not your circumstances—determines your outcomes. Win Today is a proven mental conditioning framework built by Joshua Lifrak, M.S., when he directed the Chicago Cubs' mental skills program during their historic 2016 World Series victory. Win Today presents six core principles...

STOP TRYING TO BUILD A DYNASTY WITH RAIN SOUNDS. The entire self-help industry has lied to you. For decades, gurus have preached the "Sedation Model"—telling you that to reprogram your subconscious mind, you must relax, slow down, and listen to gentle nature sounds. They are wrong. Biologically, relaxation signals safety and satiety. It floods your brain with chemicals that tell you the hunt is over. But you are not here to sleep. You are here to conquer. You are a Trader facing a volatile market. You are an Athlete breaking a physical plateau. You are a Titan looking to silence the chaos...

Unlock the Secrets of Group Dynamics to Transform Your Leadership and Team Performance! As a business leader, you understand the challenges of guiding a team towards success. The pressure to normalize collaboration, drive innovation, and achieve results can be overwhelming. But what if you could revolutionize your leadership style by harnessing the power of group dynamics? Discover how the psychology of group dynamics can transform your leadership style and enhance team performance. Gain insights into the fundamental principles of group dynamics and how they influence team behavior. Learn ...

This is no ordinary book about the mental side of golf because what makes this book distinctly unique is that it answers the three questions that have baffled sports psychologists for many years. What is the zone? How do you get there? Why can you play so well when you are there? This knowledge will empower you and automatically take your golf up to another level as you see how easy it is to intentionally put yourself into the zone. Now you know how it all works there will be no more waiting for the magical day to come along because now you will be in control thanks to the ten specifically ...

Parents, do you want to know how college coaches evaluate your child and who and how they recruit? Written by a former NCAA head coach and—more importantly—a baseball dad, The Process shares with you what it takes to get there from Little League through high school. Walter Beede is a baseball dad who played and coached for the last forty years. He has helped develop both of his sons into college ball players, and his son Tyler into an MLB player for the San Francisco Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates. Having lived through the entire process as a student-athlete, a college head coach, and a ...

What if the most powerful influence never announces itself? You’ve seen it happen. The deal that closes before negotiations begin. The market move that’s anticipated, not reacted to. The leader who shifts outcomes without raising their voice—or even being present. That isn’t luck. It’s remote influence. In Master of Remote Influence, attorney, strategist, and systems thinker Joseph Plazo pulls back the curtain on the invisible mechanics behind power, intuition, and outcome control—stripped of mysticism and rebuilt as repeatable, testable systems used by elite operators across ...

Here we explore a shift from traditional command-and-control management to a system where colleagues build a deep sense of ownership. This transition moves the leader from being a central authority to acting as a Custodian of the work environment and a Curator of agency, identity, meaning, and kinship. The Core Premise: From Control to Ownership We argue that traditional leadership often relies on coercion—the quiet pressure of "do it or pay a price"—which may produce compliance but can never create true ownership. When leaders default to control, they become bottlenecks, and the work ...

Master behavioral economics and business psychology to stop guessing and predict how people actually decide. Forget the myth of the perfectly rational actor; real human decision-making is messy, emotional, and driven by hidden cognitive biases. By understanding these mental shortcuts, you can...