Performance Philosophy

Michael Jordan credits George Mumford with transforming his on-court leadership of the Bulls, helping Jordan lead the team to six NBA championships. Mumford also helped Kobe Bryant, Andrew Bynum, and Lamar Odom and countless other NBA players turn around their games. A widely respected public speaker and coach, Mumford is sharing his own story and the strategies that have made these athletes into stars in The Mindful Athlete: The Secret to Pure Performance.

Listen to the greatest thinkers of all time as they explore the deepest questions of human existence.

Something is missing in our lives. Australian Special Forces veteran and corporate psychologist Harry Moffitt has trained and worked with the best in the military, sport and corporate realms. He has seen up close what makes a champion tick, and what makes another squander the gifts they've been...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Washington Post sportswriter and New York Times bestselling author of the “fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal) The Real All Americans presents a love letter to the extraordinary coaches and athletes she has covered over the years and the actionable principles...

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Known as opera’s “disrupter-in-residence,” director Yuval Sharon has never adhered to the art form’s conventions. In his many productions in both the United States and Europe, he constantly challenges the perception of opera as aloof by urging, among other things: performing operas in “non-places,” such as parking lots; encouraging the use of amplification; and shuffling the traditional structure of classic works, like performing Puccini’s La bohème in reverse order, ending not with the tubercular heroine Mimi’s death but with her first falling in love.

The Star Wars films continue to revolutionize science fiction, creating new standards for cinematographic excellence and permeating popular culture around the world. The films feature many complex themes ranging from good versus evil and moral development and corruption to religious faith and pragmatism, forgiveness and redemption, and many others.

This manuscript if for the true seeker of advancement. Anyone who wants to maintain a top performing consciousnes of success should own a copy of this training. This blockbuster book is a explosive analysis of success greats by Counselor George Mentz. This book contains original ideas of great self help gurus including Wallace Wattles, Dr. Napoleon Hill, William Walker Atkinson, and James Allen. The VIP analysis herein contains teachings of George Mentz on consciousness and the framework of metaphysics and success with a synopsis of ideas from: As a Man Thinketh, Think and Grow and The ...

Noir emerged as a prominent American film genre in the early 1940s, distinguishable by its use of unusual lighting, sinister plots, mysterious characters, and dark themes. From The Maltese Falcon (1941) to Touch of Evil (1958), films from this classic period reflect an atmosphere of corruption and social decay that attracted such accomplished directors as John Huston, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles.

Daily observation of classroom teaching can significantly impact the quality of teaching and learning. Organized into 21 chapters designed to be read over a period of 21 school days, Now We're Talking! presents a results-driven approach that far surpasses traditional walkthrough models of feedback for teachers. School leaders will complete two cycles of teacher evaluations while reading the book and establish the necessary foundation for subsequent visits.

Unlock the secrets of the world's greatest frontman with The Mercury Manifesto. This definitive collection of Freddie Mercury quotes explores the philosophy of stadium rock, the history of Bohemian Rhapsody, and the art of self-confidence. Perfect for fans of Queen biographies, music history, and inspirational performance guides, this volume captures the Spirit of Majesty. "I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend." Farrokh Bulsara did not just walk onto a stage; he commanded it as if it were a sovereign territory. To the world, he was Freddie Mercury—the frontman of Queen and the man ...

Water Is Life is a powerful exploration of how water shapes the human body, mind, and spirit. Blending sports science, psychology, and decades of elite coaching experience, Coach Ed Nessel reveals the transformative impact of aquatic training — from childhood swimmers learning their first strokes to world‑class athletes pushing the limits of human performance. Drawing from his background in physiology, competitive coaching, and personal discovery, Nessel explains how water influences endurance, recovery, breathing mechanics, mental resilience, and overall well‑being. Through engaging ...

'You are an infinite being with infinite potential. All you need to do is open yourself to a new consciousness, a true vision of who you really are and awaken to the power within' From leading health and performance coach, Gerry Hussey, comes a powerful guide to transforming your mind, body and...

Masquerades are among Africa’s most powerful—and most misunderstood—institutions. Often reduced to colorful costumes, festivals, or “traditional dances,” African masquerades have in fact functioned for centuries as embodied authority: enforcing law, preserving moral order, educating society, healing spiritual imbalance, and mediating between the living and the dead. In Masquerades of Black Africa, this groundbreaking work restores masquerades to their rightful place as serious African philosophical, political, and spiritual institutions. Drawing on African cosmology, history, and ...

The Substance of Leadership is a concise and practical guide that teaches you how to lead a high-performing team. Based on more than three decades of experience with high-performing teams operating in high-pressure environments from aircraft carriers to combat to TOPGUN to the business world, David Robinson takes you on an experiential journey distilling the complexities of leadership into a simple, enduring framework that will maximize your leadership effectiveness.

What if every sport was never just a game? In The Hidden Pattern Behind Every Sport, the author reveals a truth hidden in plain sight: every sport is a ritual system. Built from geometry, rules, tribe, time, and witness, sports train human beings to move energy, effort, and meaning inside limits. Long before science, psychology, or modern training theory, humans designed games as a way to practice life safely. This book decodes that system. By breaking down courts, fields, arenas, rules, equipment, teams, crowds, seasons, and even shadows, The Hidden Pattern Behind Every Sport shows how ...

Stop the Phantom Race: Why You’re Exhausted Even When You’re Sitting Still You’re sitting in a quiet room. Your body is safe. Yet inside, your mind is sprinting. Replaying yesterday’s conversations. Predicting tomorrow’s problems. Inventing emergencies that don’t exist. This is the phantom race — the invisible marathon running in your nervous system. That vibration in your chest? It isn’t just stress. It’s the "Doing" Addiction—the friction between your soul’s need for stillness and your mind’s prehistoric obsession with movement for safety. We are the most ...

The audiobook edition of this work is narrated by a synthetic voice. No human speaker performed these sentences. The author chose a synthetic narrator because the book asks the listener to examine every bargain between the real and the fabricated, including this one. If the voice troubles you, the trouble is the point. If it does not, that is also worth examining. A counterfeit banknote and a diplomatic white lie are both, in some reductive sense, "fake." Calling them by the same name obscures everything important about them: the intent behind each, the social function each serves, the harm...

New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler's follow up to Last Tango, a near-future thriller about the evolution of empathy in the tradition of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn...

In "La società della performance", Maura Gancitano e Andrea Colamedici proseguono la linea tracciata da Guy Debord con "La società dello spettacolo" e da Byung-Chul Han con "Psicopolitica", rivelando come la condizione dell'uomo contemporaneo sia strutturata per sostituire al mondo l'imitazione del mondo, all'espressione di sé l'esibizione di sé, alla narrazione lo storytelling, alla ricerca del senso della vita la ricerca di un livello sempre maggiore di benessere e visibilità.