The Confident Mind

The Confident Mind

A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance

Summary

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The Confident Mind is a complete guide to self-belief for professionals in any field: how to understand it, how to build it, how to protect it and how to apply it when your performance matters. Nathaniel Zinsser has spent decades helping Army elites, Olympic and top-tier athletes and business professionals overcome self-doubt so that they can perform to the best of their ability. In The Confident Mind Zinsser shares his a step-by-step logical approach to building confidence and breaks the process down into easy-to-practice steps that everyone can utilise. Zinsser dispels the notion that confidence is instinctive or elusive, and clearly describes the process of applying self-belief when it's time to step into the spotlight.

Throughout the book, readers will hear from champion athletes, army combat veterans and other elite performers and professionals to show how the reader can adopt the same mental strategies to control what can be controlled and to be unfazed by what can't.

© Nathaniel Zinsser 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Reviews

  • [The] new definitive guide to building and mastering confidence.
    Forbes

About the author

Nathaniel Zinsser

Nate Zinsser has directed the Performance Psychology Program at the United States Military Academy for more than 27 years, providing state of the art training in the psychology of competition, the foundations for confidence and trust, stress management and more. His curriculum has been extended to twelve US Army posts nationwide where it is used to train Army units in preparation for deployment and to support wounded warriors in their recovery. In his private practice, Zinsser has worked with ballerinas, neurosurgeons, and congressional candidates, and has taught individuals from both the NHL and NFL, including the former New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning. He has conducted training for Staples and UBS and presented to faculty and students at universities such as Princeton and Vassar.
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