Fight Your Fear and Win: Seven Skills for Performing Your Best Under Pressure--At Work, in Sports, on Stage - Hardcover

Greene, Don

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 076790625X ISBN 13: 9780767906258

Publisher: Broadway Books, 2001

Synopsis

A former Green Beret and stress coach manager outlines a program of step-by-step mental and physical exercises that enable readers to conquer performance anxiety for any high-pressure situation. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Don Greene, Ph.D., was a nationally ranked high school diver who graduated from West Point. He served in the U.S. Army?s Special Forces as a Green Beret and went on to train the San Diego Police S.W.A.T. Team in counterterrorism. Dr. Greene was the sports psychologist for the U.S. Olympic Diving Team, the World Championship Swimming Team, Golf Digest Schools, and the Vail Ski School. He now lives in New York City, where he specializes in mentoring people in a wide variety of professions through everyday and extraordinary stress: financial traders, attorneys, professional athletes, performing artists, salespeople, and more. His previous book, Audition Success, was the all-time #1 bestseller at the Juilliard School bookstore.

From the Inside Flap:

all been there: that make-it-or-break-it moment of our careers—on the brink of a deal, poised at the starting gate, under the spotlight waiting to speak or perform in front of our peers. At this point, where everything seems to be on the line, most of us experience one overriding reaction-fear-and this fear can have negative physical, mental, and emotional consequences on how well we do our job.

Don Greene, Ph.D., a renowned sports psychologist, teacher at the Juilliard School, and "stress" coach to top executives and entertainers, has spent decades studying fear and its effect on performance. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Greene shares the proven techniques he has used with Olympic athletes, Grand Prix drivers, the Vail Ski School, Golf Digest Schools, the New World Symphony, and Merrill Lynch traders to help them perform their best under pressure.

In his years of working with Olympic and professional athletes, network news anchors, classical musicians,

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 076790625X
• ISBN 13: 9780767906258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228