The Performance Cortex: How Neuroscience Is Redefining Athletic Genius

By: Zach Schonbrun

Why couldn’t Michael Jordan, the master athlete that he was, crush a baseball? Why can’t modern robotics come close to replicating the dexterity of a five-year-old? Why do good quarterbacks always seem to know where their receivers are?

Chop Wood Carry Water: How to Fall in Love with the Process of Becoming Great

By: Joshua Medcalf

A captivating story of one boy’s journey to becoming a Samurai Warrior brings the Train to be CLUTCH curriculum to life in a powerful way. Guided by “Akira-sensei” John comes to realize the greatest adversity on his journey will be the challenge of defeating the man in the mirror.

The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

By: W. Timothy Gallwey

With more than 800,000 copies sold since it was first published thirty years ago, this phenomenally successful guide has become a touchstone for hundreds of thousands of people. Not just for tennis players, or even just for athletes in general, this handbook works for anybody who wants to improve his or her performance in any activity, from playing music to getting ahead at work.

In Pursuit of Excellence: How to Win in Sport and Life Through Mental Training

By: Terry Orlick

Whether you’re an athlete, aspiring coach, or business professional, the ultimate goal remains the same: reaching your potential.

You’ll learn to focus on excellence while living and enjoying life to the fullest. You’ll gain a more positive outlook, a more focused commitment, better ways of dealing with distractions and pressures, and strategies for overcoming obstacles.

The Captain Class: A New Theory of Leadership

By: Sam Walker

A bold new theory of leadership drawn from elite captains throughout sports—named one of the best business books of the year by CNBC, The New York Times, Forbes, strategy+business, The Globe and Mail, and Sports Illustrated.

“The book taught me that there’s no cookie-cutter way to lead. Leading is not just what Hollywood tells you. It’s not the big pregame speech. It’s how you carry yourself every day, how you treat the people around you, who you are as a person.”

Now featuring analysis of the five-time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots and their captain, Tom Brady.

The seventeen most dominant teams in sports history had one thing in common: Each employed the same type of captain—a singular leader with an unconventional set of skills and tendencies. Drawing on original interviews with athletes, general managers, coaches, and team-building experts, Sam Walker identifies the seven core qualities of the Captain Class—from extreme doggedness and emotional control to tactical aggression and the courage to stand apart. Told through riveting accounts of pressure-soaked moments in sports history, The Captain Class will challenge your assumptions of what inspired leadership looks like.

Toughness: Developing True Strength On and Off the Court

By: Jay Bilas

Through his ups and downs on and off the court, Bilas learned the true meaning of toughness from coaches, teammates, and colleagues. Now, in Toughness, he examines this misunderstood—yet vital—attribute and how it contributes to winning in sports and in life. Featuring never-before-heard stories and personal philosophies on toughness from top players and coaches, including Coach K, Bob Knight, Grant Hill, Mia Hamm, Jon Gruden, Tom Izzo, Roy Williams, Bill Self, Curtis Strange, and many others—Bilas redefines what it takes to succeed.

Beyond Basketball: Coach K’s Keywords For Success

By: Mike Krzyzewski

For Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke University men’s basketball team, certain words have special importance and force. Coach K uses them every day to energize, motivate, and teach his players how to be winners on the court and in every aspect of their lives.

Training Camp: What the Best Do Better Than Everyone Else

By: Jon Gordon

Training Camp reveals that the best performers-in a variety of fields-all share the same qualities. Among other traits, the best of the best are able to maintain a big-picture vision while taking zoom focused action, they are mentally stronger, they seize the moment and they inspire excellence in the people around them. But these aren’t inborn traits; the great news is that they’re skills and attitudes that can be learned and applied by all. If you want to be your best-Training Camp offers an inspirational story and real-world wisdom on what it takes to reach true excellence and how you and your team (your work team, school team, church team and family team) can achieve it.

Zen in the Martial Arts

By: Joe Hyams

Under the guidance of such celebrated masters as Ed Parker and the immortal Bruce Lee, Joe Hyams vividly recounts his more than 25 years of experience in the martial arts. In his illuminating story, Hyams reveals to you how the daily application of Zen principles not only developed his physical expertise but gave him the mental discipline to control his personal problems-self-image, work pressure, competition. Indeed, mastering the spiritual goals in martial arts can dramatically alter the quality of your life, enriching your relationships with people, as well as helping you make use of all your abilities.

With Winning in Mind

By: Lanny Bassham

This is a great book for anyone interested in having a consistent mental performance under pressure. The book, used by PGA Tour winners, will give you an introduction to Mental Management and is packed with techniques for competitors. Learn how performance is a function of three mental processes, how to control the mind under pressure and how to train for competition. Learn the secrets of Olympic Champions. The information provided in this book has been used by people from many different backgrounds from golfers to business professionals to dog agility competitors and pageant winners. The Mental Management System can be adapted to almost any competitive arena. “With Winning in Mind” 3rd edition has 33% new information and is a complete update from the previous edition.

Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential

By: Brian Johnson

Areté is the ultimate guide to personal development, providing 451 short ideas across 7 disciplines, combined from ancient philosophy, modern science, and the world’s best books, in order to help you become the hero of your own story and achieve your full potential.

The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower–and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward Motion

By: Phil Stutz & Barry Michels

The Tools offers a solution to the biggest complaint patients have about therapy: the interminable wait for change to begin. The traditional therapeutic model sets its sights on the past, but psychiatrist Phil Stutz and psychotherapist Barry Michels employ an arsenal of techniques—“the tools”—that allow patients to use their problems as levers that access the power of the unconscious and propel them into action. Suddenly, through this transformative approach, obstacles become new chances—to find courage, embrace discipline, develop self-expression, deepen creativity.

Getting to Neutral: How to Conquer Negativity and Thrive in a Chaotic World

By: Trevor Moawad

It’s easy to be positive when everything is coming up roses. But what happens when life goes sideways? Many of us lapse into a self-defeating negative spiral that makes it hard to accomplish anything. Getting to Neutral is a step-by-step guide that shows readers how to use mental conditioning coach Trevor Moawad’s innovative motivational system to defeat negativity and thrive.

The Way Of The Seal

By: Mark Devine

Want to be tough? Cool under fire? Able to sense danger before it’s too late? In The Way of the SEAL, Updated and Expanded Edition, retired Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Along the way, you’ll reaffirm your ultimate purpose, define your most important goals, and take concrete steps to make them happen.

Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable

By: Tim Grover

For more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats – Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and hundreds of relentless competitors in sports, business, and every walk of life – and made them greater. Now, for the first time ever, he reveals what it takes to achieve total mental and physical dominance, showing you how to be relentless and achieve whatever you desire.

The 10 Pillars of Mental Performance Mastery

By: Brian Cain

Mental Performance Mastery is a story book about Mastering The Mental Game and Winning in Life. #1 best-selling author Brian Cain is at his best with this inspirational fiction story.

Matthew Simonds is a well-respected and highly sought-after business consultant who has reached a pivotal crossroads in his life. Spending 280 days a year on the road is taking its toll on his health and on the relationship with his wife and kids.

41: every 40 has a 41

What if your hardest season isn’t the end of your story just the middle?

The Bible is full of “40” seasons – 40 days of rain, 40 years in the wilderness, 40 days of fasting and temptation. And in every one, God is present in the process. But here’s the good part: after 40 comes 41.

That’s the breakthrough. The healing. The next chapter.

41 is for anyone who’s stuck in a season that doesn’t make sense. It’s 40 honest, hopeful and sometimes hilarious entries about faith, pain, perseverance, and the God who never quits on you. Each take away is soaked in Scripture but told like a story, a mini-sermon, and a conversation with a friend who reminds you:

You’re not alone.
You’re not being punished.
And you haven’t missed it.

Because if you’re still afloat, God’s still with you.

And the rain doesn’t last forever.

The Daily Stoic 10th Anniversary Edition: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Why have history’s greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today’s top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise.

The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you’ll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms.

By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you’ll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.

Ego Is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent

By: Ryan Holiday

A sharp and practical read on how ego can quietly sabotage growth, leadership, resilience, and performance. Ryan Holiday shows how humility, discipline, and self-awareness create the kind of mindset that lasts under pressure—on the field, in business, and in life.

The Obstacle Is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

By: Ryan Holiday

Since bestselling author Ryan Holiday introduced Stoicism to the world with The Obstacle Is the Way in 2014, this simple but powerful philosophy for life has taken the world by storm. This brilliant and engaging book is an invaluable source of wisdom for anyone who wants to become more successful at what they do, whether you’re a student, a parent, a professional athlete, or a world leader. Now, Ryan Holiday has updated and expanded this modern classic with a new introduction and new content featuring a diverse set of inspiring characters.

Icons of history—from Epictetus and Demosthenes to Amelia Earhart and Richard Wright—followed a simple formula to achieve greatness. They were not exceptionally brilliant, lucky, or gifted. Their success in overcoming extreme obstacles was the result of a timeless set of philosophical principles that the greatest men and women have always pursued.

In The Obstacle Is the Way, Ryan Holiday unpacks those lessons and reframes them for today’s world, giving us an indispensable formula for turning our toughest trials into triumphs. This new edition is a chance for old fans to revisit a classic and for a new generation to discover the power of Stoicism.