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You want your team to push hard, to feel as if they will come up short without total effort. But total effort doesn’t mean total anxiety. I believe optimum creativity and high performance—a sales presentation, for example, or a complex pass play from Joe Montana to Jerry Rice—are most likely to succeed when the individual or group has an attitude that is seemingly a paradox; specifically, both relaxed and intense. That’s when things really happen.

The Score Takes Care of Itself

Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh

Once a person realizes that he or she can be a professional in one domain and a beginner in another, without undue offense to the ego, that individual is at a great advantage.

Inner Skiing

W. Timothy Gallwey

He says it must be bizarre to have strangers think they know me, and love me beyond reason, while others think they know me and resent me beyond reason—all while I’m a relative stranger to myself. What makes it perverse, I tell him, is that it all revolves around tennis, and I hate tennis.

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Andre Agassi

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