The Confident Mind

A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance

By: Dr. Nate Zinsser

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

Believe and be unshakable.

The Director of West Point’s Performance Psychology Program shares the secrets of mental toughness and self-belief in this new definitive guide to mastering confidence, the key to performance in any field.

“Studying confidence with Dr. Zinsser helped me win two Super Bowls. I recommend The Confident Mind to competitors everywhere.” —Eli Manning

Dr. Nate Zinsser has spent his career training the minds of the U.S. Military Academy’s cadets as they prepare to lead and perform when the stakes are the very highest—on the battlefield. Alongside this work, he has coached world-class athletes including a Super Bowl MVP, numerous Olympic medalists, professional ballerinas, NHL All-Stars, and college All-Americans, teaching them to overcome pressure and succeed on the biggest stages.

Dr. Zinsser has come to understand that one single trait above all others makes peak performance possible: confidence, or the belief in oneself. Whether your mission involves leading a platoon into combat, returning an opponent’s serve, or delivering a sales pitch to a roomful of skeptical prospects, you perform best when you are so certain about your abilities that your flow of fear, doubts, and confusion slows to the barest minimum. What’s more, Dr. Zinsser has come to understand that confidence is a skill that can be taught, improved, and applied by anyone to enhance nearly every aspect of our lives and careers.

Now, for the first time, Dr. Zinsser distills his research and years of experience, offering a fascinating guide to the science of confidence and providing readers with a practical, step-by-step program to best harness their belief in themselves to achieve success in any field. The Confident Mind is a complete guide to confidence: how to understand it, how to build it, how to protect it, and how to rely upon it when your performance matters most.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Nathaniel Zinsser (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers

Critic reviews

“Studying confidence with Nate Zinsser brought me to the next level in my football career and helped me win two Super Bowls. People talk all the time about how a confident attitude is what makes people succeed in pressure situations, but rarely does anyone actually do anything about it. Here is your chance: I recommend The Confident Mind to competitors everywhere, no matter what sport or what ‘game’ they play.” (Eli Manning, Two-time Super Bowl MVP)

Required Listen for 2024

Powerful and practical! Easily understood and relatable content applicable to any endeavor. No fluff! No magical thinking! I have already and immediately applied and added many of the practices into my work. I recommend listening at least twice.

Pure wisdom

I loved everything about this book. A terrific guild for every aspect of our lives. Strongly recommend.

First Class

This was a truly phenomenal book from start to finish. Examples of how to unlock your full potential through confidence. Motivation from start to finish.

Excellent

Fantastic book. Definitely provides benefits in multiple aspects of life. We could all do with a little more positivity and confidence when it matters!

Excellent!

I had the opportunity to take a class with Dr. Zinsser in late 2021, during which he mentioned this book was to be released a few months later. 10 minutes into the class I pre-ordered the book and I am not disappointed. Putting just a few of these techniques into practice has already begun to make a difference.

Highly recommended.

Very Important

A common saying meant to illustrate the value of books states that a book is like someone's entire life work packaged into a few hundred pages. That's probably true in many cases, but some people's life's work ends up being more impactful than others'. What Nate Zinser offers in this book is, in my opinion, way over on the "very important/very valuable" end of that scale. At least, for anyone who lives a life where the ability to perform matters. I have taken several months to get through this book, implementing as I went, and I will be implementing other elements of the book for months into the future. And, I hope, practicing those things for the rest of my life. It's that good.

Inspiring and useful

I listen to this title with passengers. I am a medic and I was an alpine downhill ski racer. I play water polo-
Dr. Zinser focuses on the mentality of the competitive athlete and his book offers perspective and insight into the mindset of todays “warfighter.”
Thanks for the boost! 🌁🌅🤘

Exceptional

The stories of athletes were engaging, the insights into performance enhancement were solid, the practical exercises were dialed in. I often don’t finish audiobooks. This one I will listen to again.

Refreshing Take on Confidence

Stark contrast to other books about confidence such as Relentless by Tim Grover.

Whereas other books place emphasis on taking the game seriously, this book reminds us to be more relaxed and not think about the consequences of performance in the middle of the task/event. Simply doing our best at that specific time is enough.

Highly recommend for useful ways to reframe failure and keep learning from success.

Simply the best.

This is hands down the best compilation of field tested methods to perform, supported by the latest research and science. A must read for any one working in a performative field or role.