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Overachievement
The New Model For Exceptional Performance
by John Eliot
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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Portfolio Trade (April 25 2006)
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The Myths of High Performance
Whose life do you admire the most? Whose phenomenal success do you wish you could call your own? Have you ever wondered what they know that you don't about the path to success? Bill Gates started 'fooling around' with computer software when he was a kid

The Myths of High Performance
Whose life do you admire the most? Whose phenomenal success do you wish you could call your own? Have you ever wondered what they know that you don't about the path to success? Bill Gates started 'fooling around' with computer software when he was a kid

The Myths of High Performance, Part 2
There are no limits. If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious. Setting goals is for couch potatoes.



Book Description

Relax. Set goals. Focus on the outcome. Lose yourself to the Zone. All reasonable, sensible advice when you are facing a big presentation at work, a crucial point in the game, or any kind of career-launching performance. And all utterly, hopelessly, wrong.

According to John Eliot, Ph.D., "Such self-improvement balderdash will do nothing but relegate you to a career in mediocrity." As Dr. Eliot has discovered through his cutting-edge research and real-world coaching, techniques such as goal-setting, relaxation, visualization, stress management, and flow just don't work for most people. Relaxing when the pressure is on is the wrong way to go. Instead, to really ratchet up your performance, you'll need to change the way you think about pressure and learn how to welcome it, enjoy it, and make it work to your advantage.

Mixing scientific insights with entertaining and inspiring stories, Overachievement will help you achieve spectacular success in any situation that demands you rise above and beyond what you ever thought possible.

About the Author

John Eliot, Ph.D.John Eliot, Ph.D.

Dr. teaches business and psychology at Rice University and is adjunct professor at SMU Cox School of Business Leadership Center. He is the former director of Rice's program in sports management and performance enhancement. In 2000, he co-founded The Milestone Group, which provides performance consultation and training to business executives, professional athletes, and corporations nationwide.

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