Learned Excellence : Mental Disciplines for Leading and Winning from the World's Top Performers

Learned Excellence is a comprehensive and practical guide to the mental disciplines of high performance | from the expert who developed the US Navy SEALs mental toughness curriculum and has worked with thousands of top athletes | elite military personnel | business executives | and first responders. These stars perform across a wide variety of fields | but they all have something in common: when they are at work they know how to think clearly | stay focused | and shrug off setbacks under very high levels of stress. They may have superb physical and intellectual traits | but it is the stuff going on above the neck and between the ears that makes them excellent. The difference between settling and achieving | between good and great | between contentment and fulfillment | is based entirely on their mental approach. This approach isn’t innate; it is 100% learned. The world’s top performers aren’t born that way | they learn excellence. So can everyone else | and Dr. Eric Potterat can teach us. One of the world’s leading performance psychologists and a retired US Navy Commander | Dr. Potterat has spent over three decades helping thousands of top performers from the military | sports | first responder | and business worlds improve. He served as the lead psychologist for the US Navy SEALs and the Los Angeles Dodgers | and has consulted with the US Women’s National Soccer team | the Miami Heat | Red Bull athletes | NASA astronauts | and dozens of Olympic medalists. In Learned Excellence | Eric distills the insights he’s learned into five mental disciplines for high performance—Values & Goals | Mindset | Process | Adversity Tolerance | and Balance & Recovery. Illustrated with numerous stories and quotes | Learned Excellence features clear principles and practices that anyone can use to raise their game. We are all performers | at work | at school | at home | and at life. Learned Excellence provides the roadmap to help each of us perform at our very best.