Summary Of The Champion's Mind By Jim Afremow

The Champion’s Mind by Jim Afremow imparts the knowledge of proven winners, in their respective sports, into your life, so that you too may accomplish set goals with proven mental exercises. In this novel, Afremow focuses on the psychological aspect of sports, singling out tested and proven techniques of strengthening the mind in order to strengthen your game, whether it be on the court, in the classroom, or in the office. Time after time, Afremow shows us how to train our minds through various exercises, and teaches us how to use our newly trained minds to achieve success in our field. By establishing a step-by-step plan that targets daily progress, rather than big picture improvement, Afremow helps us discover how to turn our dream performances into reality. As the

Throughout the book I found that the pages couldn’t flip quickly enough. One of my favorite passages was in Chapter Six, Take Control of Your Personal Destiny. In this chapter there is a page written on deferred gratification. It goes in depth on a study where children ages of 4 to 6 were placed in a room free of distraction, and given a marshmallow. They were told that they may eat the marshmallow, but if they waited for 15 minutes without consuming it, they would receive a second marshmallow. Results showed that the most of the younger children were quick to eat the marshmallow, while one third of the group (mostly older children) had the will to wait for a second marshmallow. Follow ups with the children helped show that the children who were able to wait for the second marshmallow would be more successful on average. The results showed that the patient children also were usually able to achieve higher SAT scores than their counterparts. I love this passage because it motivates me to not cave to the temptations of temporary satisfaction, in order to not lose the attainment of the ultimate