Оглавление
Dr. Robert Puff. Success Beyond Your Imagination: Working In the Zone
In the Zone
One Brain, Several Minds
The Secret Ingredient To Success
Self-Criticism As a Barrier To Success
Change Your Responses, Change Your Mind
Training Tips For Getting Into the Zone
The Value of Silence
Personal Benefits To Spending Time In The Zone
What the Zone Mind Can Do for Corporate Culture
Conclusion
Closing Remarks
Отрывок из книги
Have you ever experienced being “in the zone?” I’m not talking about some special diet, or “zoning-out” in front of the T.V. I’m mean, for example, when the underdog on a T.V. talent show comes to the stage for the last round with a different air about them––a strange elevated confidence––and gives a winning performance that astounds the audience. Or when a world-class athlete is in peak performance, undistracted, flowing with absolute clarity and confidence toward undeniable victory. Have you ever been in the zone like that?
What if your professional life could be marked by that kind of excellence? What if every day on the job—whether you’re a freelancer with a few clients, an entrepreneur with an upstart, or a CEO with a large corporation—you could experience that sort of presence, focus and confidence? The exciting truth is you can!
.....
Do you guess that they are thinking about how to move their hips or get their body to tap, bend or spin as they are executing a move? Do you imagine that every move is preceded by a question of whether they can pull it off, and followed by an evaluation of whether they correctly executed that segment of the routine? Is their Egoic Mind chattering all the way through it?
No. These masters are not engaging in mind-chatter. If they were caught in mind-chatter they couldn’t dance nearly as well, and certainly not with the characteristic grace that makes it look so easy. They are in the zone. The energy that it requires to critique, question and continuously direct oneself detracts from the energy available to put into the activity or performance itself. Dancers of that caliber have trained to the point that their skill becomes second nature. It’s no longer something outside of themselves that they aspire to. They internalize the given skill and it becomes an integral part of them.
.....
