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Choke
- What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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Summary
It happens to all of us. You've prepared for days, weeks, even years for the big day when you will finally show your stuff in academics, in your career, in sports but when the big moment arrives, nothing seems to work. You hit the wrong note, drop the ball, get stumped by a simple question. In other words, you choke. It's not fun to think about, but now there's good news: This doesn't have to happen.
Dr. Sian Beilock, an expert on performance and brain science, reveals in Choke the astonishing new science of why we all too often blunder when the stakes are high. What happens in our brain and body when we experience the dreaded performance anxiety? And what are we doing differently when everything magically "clicks" into place and the perfect golf swing, tricky test problem, or high-pressure business pitch becomes easy? In an energetic tour of the latest brain science, with surprising insights on every page, Beilock explains the inescapable links between body and mind; reveals the surprising similarities among the ways performers, students, athletes, and business people choke; and shows how to succeed brilliantly when it matters most.
In lively prose and accessibly rendered science, Beilock examines how attention and working memory guide human performance, how experience and practice and brain development interact to create our abilities, and how stress affects all these factors. She sheds new light on counter-intuitive realities, like why the highest performing people are most susceptible to choking under pressure, why we may learn foreign languages best when were not paying attention, why early childhood athletic training can backfire, and how our emotions can make us both smarter and dumber. All these fascinating findings about academic, athletic, and creative intelligence come together in Beilock's new ideas about performance under pressure - and her secrets to never choking again.
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- Tinashe
- 28-08-17
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stuggled to finish no memorable moments narrators book was too long and boring nothing exciting
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- Karen
- 30-11-19
Tediously repetitious
I don’t give up on books often, but when I realised I still had four hours to go I decided it was time to throw in the towel. The concept is relatively easy to get, although I have a science degree I don’t think it’s overly complicated. I find it hard to understand therefore why the almost the entire book is made up of repeated examples of the same concept.
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- Pascal
- 28-12-23
Rubbbish
Complete waste of time so many better texts out there see Raymond Prior or Gio Valiente
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-05-17
Loved it!
I learned a lot. it's a must for anyone who wants to improve themselves in whatever field they're in.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Mr. I. H. Jones
- 24-02-11
Outstanding in content and presentation
Suzanne Toren is the ideal reader for this book. She reads clearly, at an appropriate pace, and has obviously thoroughly understood the sometimes quite technical content. She makes the most telling points with just the right tone of emphasis or irony, and even pronounces the name of psychologist Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi correctly, a feat which many professional psychologists cannot master.
The text itself constitutes a most enlightening and practically useful review of research in the area of human achievement. While the background is filled in with details of some historically famous experiments and effects, most of the research quoted is very recent. The results are always interesting and sometimes surprising. All aspects of achievement are discussed, from academic, logical and mathematical performance, where 'cognitive horsepower' is at a premium, to procedural behaviour such as sporting prowess and musical performance. At the end of each section the author summarises the implications of the research with a series of practical tips to improve performance.
I believe this book will be of great interest and practical benefit to students, teachers and academics, sportsmen, athletes and musicians. I look forward to the day when these findings start to permeate the school and university teaching and testing systems.
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