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The Confident Mind
- A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Believe and be unshakable.
The Director of West Point’s Performance Psychology Program shares the secrets of mental toughness and self-belief in this new definitive guide to mastering confidence, the key to performance in any field.
“Studying confidence with Dr. Zinsser helped me win two Super Bowls. I recommend The Confident Mind to competitors everywhere.” —Eli Manning
Dr. Nate Zinsser has spent his career training the minds of the U.S. Military Academy’s cadets as they prepare to lead and perform when the stakes are the very highest—on the battlefield. Alongside this work, he has coached world-class athletes including a Super Bowl MVP, numerous Olympic medalists, professional ballerinas, NHL All-Stars, and college All-Americans, teaching them to overcome pressure and succeed on the biggest stages.
Dr. Zinsser has come to understand that one single trait above all others makes peak performance possible: confidence, or the belief in oneself. Whether your mission involves leading a platoon into combat, returning an opponent’s serve, or delivering a sales pitch to a roomful of skeptical prospects, you perform best when you are so certain about your abilities that your flow of fear, doubts, and confusion slows to the barest minimum. What’s more, Dr. Zinsser has come to understand that confidence is a skill that can be taught, improved, and applied by anyone to enhance nearly every aspect of our lives and careers.
Now, for the first time, Dr. Zinsser distills his research and years of experience, offering a fascinating guide to the science of confidence and providing readers with a practical, step-by-step program to best harness their belief in themselves to achieve success in any field. The Confident Mind is a complete guide to confidence: how to understand it, how to build it, how to protect it, and how to rely upon it when your performance matters most.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
What the critics say
“Studying confidence with Nate Zinsser brought me to the next level in my football career and helped me win two Super Bowls. People talk all the time about how a confident attitude is what makes people succeed in pressure situations, but rarely does anyone actually do anything about it. Here is your chance: I recommend The Confident Mind to competitors everywhere, no matter what sport or what ‘game’ they play.” (Eli Manning, Two-time Super Bowl MVP)
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- Karen Hood-caddy
- 2022-06-09
Great book
I found this book really inspiring and am going to listen to it on ce more to fully take it all in!
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- Hellen Juma
- 2022-05-12
tithe life changing book for the new generation
If you are struggling in lifexwondering which path to follow, or how to stick to what you love to do...This is the book to go for.
I have rad many books on self improvement but this one take a special place in my heart. My #1 must read book for 2022.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Mark
- 2022-11-06
Empirical, Not Anecdotal
Amazingly, there’s not that much that is truly new in this book. But it is the explanation, the context, all of the true life story performance enhancements, and the tools and techniques that the author introduces that collectively make this a phenomenal book.
The book is organized chronologically: Getting hold of your past, performing great in the current, and preparing for your future performance.
I personally found the CBA technique to be the most relevant and powerful to my white-collar athlete career. C stands for Cue. B stands for breathe. A stands for attach. It’s all laid out beautifully in chapter 8.
Alan Kay of Disney was fond of saying context is worth 50 IQ points. The same can be said of Nate Zinsser: after 30 years of practicing what he preaches at West Point, he fully and completely understands sports psychology, and how it applies to every day life.
Read or listen to the book with an open mind. Pick one or two of the wonderful exercises that the author recommends. And get your “18%” improvement in performance.
3 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Evan
- 2022-03-20
Helped me develop professional confidence
I am a college student studying design and read this book to gain confidence in my professional skills. My biggest problem was procrastinating on work I felt was beyond my skills. Another problem is the design professors in my college are excessively critical, and break down the students confidence. The book gave me some journalling techniques as well as methods to reframe my internal voice. As David Goggins says, the most important conversation is the one you have with yourself. I don't know much about performance psychology but this book helped me with my confidence in my design skills. I believe my improvements were a result of implementing the recommended daily habits.
I'm not picky about audiobook quality. Seemed fine to me,
2 people found this helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- unknown
- 2023-03-20
Pause
After hearing the word pause repeated for over 15 minutes i had to turn it off. The book was interesting up to there but i just couldn't listen to the word pause repeated over after every sentence anymore.
1 person found this helpful
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- William harrison
- 2022-11-09
perfect
The best mental game book I've ever listened too! You will improve in every area of your life!
1 person found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Jacob Cantrell
- 2022-09-03
I loved it!
I am hyper critical of myself, yet I have had some successes. I found the information very relatable. I wish I had this book so much sooner.
1 person found this helpful
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- Marc R.
- 2022-07-07
This is just what I needed!
There is a lot of useful information in this book! Thank you so much for this!
1 person found this helpful
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-01-28
Nothing here…
I’m not sure why this book was written or published. There’s nothing new or useful.
1 person found this helpful
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- Chris Rogers
- 2023-06-06
Redundant and uninsightful
Lots of redundant anecdotal stories. The stories seem big on name dropping either the person he worked with or the institution.
In the end it didn’t really build up to much that was either insightful or applicable.
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- Mark
- 2023-05-16
Mark
Dr. Zinnser is the gold standard in sports psychology. This book is his meditation on performance. I have used many of these techniques and continue to improve and learn from his expertise.
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- Jordan Pistorius
- 2023-04-27
Excellent book!
This book has no fluff. It provides pure, actionable information that changes the way you perceive confidence. Highly recommended.