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High Performance
Lessons from the Best on Becoming Your Best
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You might enjoy this book if you're seeking practical insights into achieving personal growth and excellence, drawing lessons from elite performers across various fields. It provides a blend of inspiring stories and actionable advice that can help you cultivate a high-performance mindset in both personal and professional areas.
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How high achievers unlocked their potential. And how you can too.
The phenomenal Sunday Times bestseller
'Massively motivating' Fearne Cotton
'A wealth of wisdom' Vex King
'Read this book' Ant Middleton
High Performance isn't born. It's made.
This book uncovers the eight essential habits of the world's leading sportspeople, coaches and entrepreneurs.
From taking responsibility for your situation to finding your 'Trademark Behaviours', it reveals how the world's highest-achieving people unlocked their potential - and how you can too. Anyone can learn the secrets of high performance.
'Full of valuable principles with real-world relevance to people's everyday lives' Toto Wolff
'So many different lessons from so many remarkable people' Adam Peaty
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The book by Damian Hughes and Jake Humphrey is highly praised for providing guidance on cultivating a high-performance mindset and habits. It is viewed as an inspiring and motivating read that shares powerful tools and insights from successful individuals across various disciplines. Readers find it beneficial for fostering not only personal excellence but also creating a culture of high performance within teams.
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ISBN: 9781847943705
Publisher: Cornerstone
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 January 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin (Cornerstone)
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 19.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 215g
Pages: 304
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About the Author
Jake Humphrey (Author) Jake Humphrey is one of the UK's best-In their chart-topping High Performance podcast, Jake and Damian interview some of the world's leading athletes, businesspeople and thinkers about what makes them excel. Their first book, High Performance, was a Sunday Times bestseller and has sold over 100,000 copies. Damian Hughes (Author) Damian Hughes is an expert on high-performance sporting cultures and a visiting professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. The author of several bestselling books, Damian's research has been praised by the likes of Sir Richard Branson, Muhammad Ali, Sir Roger Bannister, Tiger Woods and Sir Alex Ferguson.
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