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Peak Performance: Mental Training Techniques of the World’s Greatest Athletes

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By Charles A. Garfield, Hal Zina Bennett — 1985

A leading sports psychologist and a veteran sports writer examine the new mental training techniques of Russian and Eastern European athletes and detail exercises that allow everyone to benefit from those techniques.

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Bruce Lee’s Philosophy on Life: 6 Simple, Transformative Words.

“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” ~ Bruce Lee The premise of his philosophy was efficiency—complete and utter efficiency of the soul.

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Samuel Kronen
2017
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What Is a Flow State?

If you have ever felt completely absorbed in something, you might have been experiencing a mental state that psychologists refer to as flow. Achieving this state can help people feel greater enjoyment, energy, and involvement.

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Kendra Cherry
2022
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11 Activities and Exercises to Induce a Flow State (+ 6 Examples)

Flow state is losing yourself in the moment; when you find your abilities are well matched to an activity, the world around you quietens and you may find yourself achieving things you only dreamt to be possible.

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Elaine Houston
2021
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How To Enjoy Studying: Flow

FLOW is a state of total absorption in an activity where the individual is so focused that nothing else seems to matter. Time flies by and the activity becomes a joyful, even ecstatic, experience.

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Stefan Goldfinch
2015
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How To Reach Flow State (Using 10 Flow State ‘Triggers’)

Think about the last time where you were engaged in an activity and you simply lost track of time. You were focused like a ninja, you felt amazing and it seemed as if there was nothing else on this planet besides you and your activity.

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Jari Roomer
2019
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Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: Depression in College Athletes Web Extra #2 (HBO Sports)

Madison Holleran’s father Jim remembers his daughter and calls on athletic departments to do more to help student-athletes with mental health problems.

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2015
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Olympic Medalist Simone Biles on Her Scholarship, Lifetime Movie and Larry Nassar | TODAY

Five-time Olympic medalist Simone Biles talks to TODAY’s Hoda Kotb about the new scholarship being launched in her name, a new Lifetime movie based on her life, the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo and the sentencing of disgraced doctor Larry Nassar. She says the judge in Nassar’s trial is her “hero.

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Simone Biles
2018
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Finding Flow

Here, the man who literally wrote the book on flow presents his most lucid account yet of how to experience this blissful state.

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
1997
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