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The Performance Paradox: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 8, 2023

The Performance Paradox : Turning the Power of Mindset into Action Eduardo Briceño Ballantine Books (September 2023) “Vision without execution is hallucination.”  Thomas Edison Presumably Eduardo Briceño agrees with Edison but would probably add that ambitious people spend too much…

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George Lucas on his life and work

November 5, 2020

Thank you, IMDb, for providing a wealth of information about  the entertainment world. For example, about the life and work of George Lucas. He was born in 1944 and raised on a walnut ranch in Modesto, California. His father was…

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The Eight Major Components of Flow

April 11, 2017

Here is a Wiki briefing on a concept that is the focus of Mihaly Csikszentmihályi‘s eponymous book, published in 1990. “In positive psychology, flow, also known as being ‘the zone,’ is the mental state of operation in which a person…

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Winners: A book review by Bob Morris

February 21, 2017

Winners: And How They Succeed Alastair Campbell Pegasus Books Ltd (2015) What we can learn from winners’ mindsets as well as from their modus operandi Alistair Campbell carefully organized and then presents his material within four Parts. To his substantial…

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Mihály Csíkszentmihályi on “Flow”

September 27, 2016

In basketball, there were stretches in games (especially during playoff games) when Michael Jordan seems to make every shot he took. In tournament golf, there were stretches during a round (especially during a major tournament) when Tiger Woods seems to…

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Peak: A book review by Bob Morris

April 25, 2016

Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise K. Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool An Eamon Dolan Book/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 12016) Why some people are amazingly good at what they do…and why so many others aren’t In “The Making…

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For all you golfers out there….

April 5, 2016

Competition at this year’s Masters Invitational Golf Tournament begins on Thursday and continues through Sunday. Here are several interesting facts about this unique tournament. 1. In the Beginning The Masters as we know it would never have been, if the…

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the psychology of optimal experience

February 10, 2016

A Hungarian psychologist who relocated to the United States in 1956 at there age of 22, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced “me-high CHEEK-sent-me-high”) is one of the most influential contemporary thinkers in recent years. He is probably best-known for his concept of…

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One Second Ahead: A book review by Bob Morris

November 4, 2015

One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness Rasmus Hougaard with Jacqueline Carter and Gillian Coutts Palgrave Macmillan (2015) How and why being constantly mindful can help accelerate personal growth and professional development With Jacqueline Carter and Gillian…

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Andreas Kluth on “The Catastrophe of Success”

March 6, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andreas Kluth for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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