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Nov 15, 2024 3:49 AM

Author:Jake Humphrey,Damian Hughes

High Performance

The phenomenal Sunday Times bestseller

'Massively motivating' Fearne Cotton

'A wealth of wisdom' Vex King

'Read this book' Ant Middleton

High performance isn't born. It's made.

This book uncovers the eight essential habits of the world's leading sportspeople, coaches and entrepreneurs.

From taking responsibility for your situation to finding your 'Trademark Behaviours', it reveals how the world's highest-achieving people unlocked their potential - and how you can too. Anyone can learn the secrets of high performance.

'Full of valuable principles with real-world relevance to people's everyday lives' Toto Wolff

'So many different lessons from so many remarkable people' Adam Peaty

Drawing on conversations with... Dina Asher-Smith | Steven Bartlett | Tom Daley | Steven Gerrard | Evelyn Glennie | Ole Gunnar Solskjær | Kelly Holmes | Chris Hoy | Eddie Jones | Siya Kolisi | Frank Lampard | Jo Malone | Matthew McConaughey | Ant Middleton | Tracey Neville | Robin Van Persie | Mauricio Pochettino | Gareth Southgate | Holly Tucker | Jonny Wilkinson | Clive Woodward | Toto Wolff and many more...

Reviews

High Performance will help you think clearly, act decisively and keep calm under pressure. If you want to stop making excuses and take responsibility for your life, I recommend you read this book.

—— ANT MIDDLETON

This book captures so many different lessons from so many remarkable people. It will help every reader apply these insights to their own lives - so they can become high performers themselves.

—— ADAM PEATY

High Performance will help you recognise your inner strength and celebrate your achievements. It's inspiring, exciting and massively motivating.

—— FEARNE COTTON

This amazing book will teach you the mindset and habits of champions. High Performance has already impacted some of the best players and coaches across the world, but Jake and Damian's insights are equally valuable to people from any walk of life. I urge you to open this book and open your mind to the lessons within.

—— FRANK LAMPARD

A fantastic book that will help you think like an Olympic champion - in mind, body and spirit.

—— DAME KELLY HOLMES

Teamwork won us the Rugby World Cup, and teamwork can transform your life. In this brilliant book Jake and Damian get to the heart of defining, creating, and inspiring the team around you, so you too can achieve high performance.

—— SIR CLIVE WOODWARD

This excellent book won't just teach you how to be a high performer. It will show you how to build a high performance culture that spreads beyond your actions into those of the whole team.

—— TRACEY NEVILLE

A powerful book containing powerful tools to create high-performing cultures.

—— JAMES TIMPSON

Jake and I met in F1, and he has always had a perspective that looked beyond the blinkers of motor-racing. This book perfectly reflects that open-mindedness. It's full of valuable principles and approaches shared by teams and athletes across professional sports, with real-world relevance to people's everyday lives.

—— TOTO WOLFF

I loved this book. It isn't just about how to be a high performer sometimes, but about how to be a high performer all the time - on the pitch, at home and at work.

—— KEVIN SINFIELD

Jake Humphrey has interviewed some of the most iconic individuals around. He has a wealth of wisdom to share.

—— VEX KING, author of Good Vibes, Good Life

Focuses the mind on how to be your best . . . Thought-provoking signposts to a more fruitful 2022.

—— Observer

An intriguing look into our attitudes to time ... striking

—— Guardian

A scintillating and important meditation on the notion of time

—— Times Literary Supplement

A powerful critique of the way we conceive of time in the modern, industrial world ... striking ... Odell calls for a way of living that is less extractive, less dependent on domination, and less about the human self

—— Guardian

The bestselling author of How to Do Nothing ... returns with another urgent examination of modern life

—— i-D

A moving and provocative game changer

—— Publishers Weekly

In a work both magisterial and elliptical, Odell takes on the concept of 'time' from every conceivable angle ... This is both an irresistible big-idea book an a guide to rethinking a burning world

—— LA Times

A penetrating, provocative investigation into the subject of time - how to understand and live with it - on both an individual and societal level ... impressive

—— Shelf Awareness

Temporal structure has its comforts, particularly following a tumultuous three years ... That yo-you effect [of the last few years] drew me to Saving Time, Jenny Odell's sharp book tracing the cultural forces that shape our conception of time

—— Laura Regensdorf, Vanity Fair

Odell fights to provide us with an alternative way to experience the time we have

—— i Paper

Ambitious ... a pleasure to read ... thought-provoking

—— New Scientist

A sweeping yet personal challenge to assumptions Western society makes about the relationships between individuals and the finite hours in a given day

—— Time Magazine

Odell argues convincingly that our daily experience is dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside

—— Irish Independent

The best beach read of the year ... Read it, and then think deeply about how you are reading your own time

—— The Media Leader

Odell's latest book, Saving Time, is great at analysing where a lot of our notions about how to use our time came from (hint: capitalism).

—— RTE Ireland

One of President Barack Obama's 'Favourite books of 2019'

—— President Barack Obama on How To Do Nothing
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