• Another Word For Overachievement

Ebook (ePUB), by John Eliot. Were you ever advised to 'just relax' before making a big speech? Don’t.From Texas A&M. Were you ever advised to 'just relax' before making a big speech? Don't.From Texas A&M professor and celebrity advisor, Dr. John Eliot, this insightful guide takes a.

Another Word For Overachievement

Annotation Were you ever advised to 'just relax' before making a big speech? Don't.From Texas A techniques like visualization and goal setting, based on pseudoscience rather than empirical evidence, often get in our way rather than propel us forward.Drawing on field-tested experiments and extensive research in neuropsychology, Eliot shares why these 'common sense' strategies tend to come up short for the majority of people-and how, instead, great accomplishments are more likely to result from 'Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket', 'Thinking Like a Squirrel', and 'Embracing Butterflies As a Good Thing'. Us navy rank patches.

These counterintuitive practices not only trigger your full natural talent, but also teach you how to thrive under pressure, not dread it.OVERACHIEVEMENT incorporates Eliot's work with Fortune 500 companies, Olympic athletes, renowned surgeons, military pilots, and Grammy-winning musicians, providing you with a powerful combination of inspiring stories and life-changing tools, offering the skills needed to overcome stress and rise above your peers in the boardroom, on the playing field, or in the normal day-to-day of life. Rating: (not yet rated) Subjects. More like this. Annotation Were you ever advised to 'just relax' before making a big speech?

Don't.From Texas A techniques like visualization and goal setting, based on pseudoscience rather than empirical evidence, often get in our way rather than propel us forward.Drawing on field-tested experiments and extensive research in neuropsychology, Eliot shares why these 'common sense' strategies tend to come up short for the majority of people-and how, instead, great accomplishments are more likely to result from 'Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket', 'Thinking Like a Squirrel', and 'Embracing Butterflies As a Good Thing'. These counterintuitive practices not only trigger your full natural talent, but also teach you how to thrive under pressure, not dread it.OVERACHIEVEMENT incorporates Eliot's work with Fortune 500 companies, Olympic athletes, renowned surgeons, military pilots, and Grammy-winning musicians, providing you with a powerful combination of inspiring stories and life-changing tools, offering the skills needed to overcome stress and rise above your peers in the boardroom, on the playing field, or in the normal day-to-day of life.

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.