📖 How Champions Think by Dr. Bob Rotella

Topic: Mindset | Medium: Audible | Rating: 4/5

Three keynotes

1. Champions set extremely high goals

"It's a big advantage to aim high. When you aim high you have a chance to be great. Even your failures will be better than most people's best... If no one thinks your goals are crazy, you're probably not aiming high enough." (Rotella 2015)

2. Champions take pride in things others won't

"An exceptional person who is in the fitness and a healthy diet will relish the chance to go to a banquet, which is a sort of occasion excuse a lot of people to drink and eat too much. The exceptional person sees it as a chance to demonstrate if only to himself the power of his will. He takes pride in doing things average people will not do, and pride is one of the rewards that reinforces a good habit." (Rotella 2015)

3. Champions are process-driven not outcome-driven

"Exceptional people immerse themselves in process goals." (Rotella 2015)

"The scores of games are soon consigned to dusty record books. The trophies won are in the end just souvenirs. The lessons we learn in sport are supposed to be what endures. We are supposed to learn from coaches who demand excellence from us. That we are capable of more than we first think. We are supposed to learn from perseverance and commitment and confidence. Then apply those lessons to the rest of our lives." (Rotella 2015)