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Author
Language
English
Description
Have you ever left a nerve-racking challenge and immediately wished for a do over? Maybe after a job interview, a performance, or a difficult conversation? The very moments that require us to be genuine and commanding can instead cause us to feel phony and powerless. Too often we approach our lives' biggest hurdles with dread, execute them with anxiety, and leave them with regret. By accessing our personal power, we can achieve "presence, " the state...
Author
Publisher
Crown Business
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nobody performs better under pressure. Regardless of the task, pressure ruthlessly diminishes our judgment, decision-making, attention, dexterity, and performance in every professional and personal arena. The authors introduce us to the concept of pressure management, offering empirically tested short term and long term solutions to help us overcome the debilitating effects of pressure. The reality is, pressure makes us do worse, and sometimes leads...
3) Jack's worry
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Jack has been looking forward to playing the trumpet in his first concert, but on the morning of the big day, Jack becomes anxious about performing and his worry starts to grow.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The star St. Louis Cardinal pitcher describes his career-shaping battle with a devastating slump and how he learned to conquer it, sharing the profound lessons he learned about anxiety, pressure and adversity along the way.
5) Cold souls
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Souls can be extracted and traded as commodities. An actor named Paul Giamatti agonizes over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya.' Paralyzed with anxiety, he stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by deep-freezing souls. Paul enlists their services, intending to reinstate his soul once he survives the performance. Complications ensue when a mysterious, soul-trafficking mule borrows...
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