Extreme Balance
Paradoxical Principles That Make You a Champion
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Asa Siegel
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Think Like a Champion
In the world of elite sports, victory is often attributed to physical and athletic prowess alone. But what if the key to unlocking your full potential lies not in your physical abilities, but in your mindset?
In Extreme Balance, three renowned experts on performance, motivation, and competition dive into the unexplored territory of the mind, paradoxically revealing the one mindset that can truly elevate your game: the ability to embrace an unfixed mindset. Through a series of gripping stories, perceptive interviews with champions, scientific insights, and expert analysis, you will be challenged to reconsider your entire approach to success.
- Discover how embracing an unfixed mindset can revolutionize your approach to sports performance.
- Learn from world-class athletes and experts as they unveil the paradoxical principles essential for champion success.
- Gain insights into the mental tug-of-wars athletes face and how to leverage them for your benefit.
Transform your thinking, transform your game, and embrace the path to championship performance with Extreme Balance.
©2024 Joe De Sena, Ben Askren, David Sacks (P)2024 Ascent AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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The bestselling fitness book for men who want to gain 25-35 pounds of lean muscle and lose as much fat or more in just 3-5 hours per week—and without giving up delicious foods or doing grueling workouts. Is Bigger Leaner Stronger a body building book that can help you pack on brain-shrinking amounts of muscle in 30 days flat? No. Is it a fitness nutrition book full of dubious diet and exercise “hacks” and “shortcuts” for melting belly fat faster than a roided hornet? Absolutely not.
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Narration sounds like a Robot
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Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 2016. Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars
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The real stories behind the scenery of America’s national parks. For 12 years, Andrea Lankford lived in the biggest, most impressive national parks in the world, working a job she loved. She chaperoned baby sea turtles on their journey to sea. She pursued bad guys on her galloping patrol horse. She jumped into rescue helicopters bound for the heart of the Grand Canyon. She won arguments with bears. She slept with a few too many rattlesnakes. Hell yeah, it was the best job in the world! Fortunately, Andrea survived it.
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Derick Lugo had never been hiking. He certainly couldn't imagine going more than a day without manicuring his goatee. But with a job cut short and no immediate plans, this fixture of the New York comedy scene began to think about what he might do with months of free time. He had heard of the Appalachian Trail, but he had never seriously considered attempting to hike all 2,184.2 miles of it. Suddenly he found himself asking, Could he do it?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Follow the trails of hunters - the original storytellers - as they interpret signs, examine tracks, and chase and catch their prey (or fail to). Listeners can curl up with the best authentic hunting fiction and non-fiction, bringing the great Mount Kenya and the prairies of the American Bison into your living room. From Theodore Roosevelt and Gene Hill to Rick Bass and Charles Dickens, remember classic hunting tales and discover new stories of hunters’ luck, camaraderie, and use of smarts on the trail.
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A broad collection of hunting tales
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Great concept, interesting writing.
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- 12-30-24
Good Idea but difficult to follow
The audible version is robotic in its presentation making the content hard to listen to. A good topic that is brought down a bit by its lack of tie-ins, and some poor examples (e.g. evasion is not a flight response in the flinch process nor is evasion, a good example of flight in a non-flinch response). Good idea, some good content but presentation of the audio version makes it a little harsh to follow.
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- KJ
- 09-19-24
Fundamentals of life
Amazing book. Thorough and thought out through each lesson. Recommend to everyone. Love the concept of increasing your suffering tolerance. Continue to do things the hard way. It is the only way.
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- Chad Terpstra
- 01-24-25
Audio
Sounds like the narrator is AI, monotone and broken sentences. Hard to get engaged and focus on the story.
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