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Interview with Adolfo Gómez Sánchez, author of The Optimal Performance Formula: An Actionable Blueprint For Those Passionate About Achieving the Impossible

Interview with Adolfo Gómez Sánchez, author of The Optimal Performance Formula: An Actionable Blueprint For Those Passionate About Achieving the Impossible


Adolfo Gómez Sánchez, author of The Optimal Performance Formula: An Actionable Blueprint For Those Passionate About Achieving the Impossible recommends a brilliant bunch of books! Before jumping into the interview, please check out Adolfo's book:

The Optimal Performance Formula: An Actionable Blueprint For Those Passionate About Achieving the Impossible

The Optimal Performance Formula: An Actionable Blueprint For Those Passionate About Achieving the Impossible

Adolfo Gómez Sánchez

Description from Bookshop.org:
The Optimal Performance Formula is a master playbook of the fundamental variables, tools, and techniques for driving optimal performance for professional athletes, business leaders, and performing artists who aspire to reach their maximum potential and guide their organizations to elite status.

Built and refined over three decades, it merges the author's academic training and research on the science of performance with the ancient teachings derived from a lifetime studying martial arts. Battle tested in the trenches with top professional athletes and senior business leaders from leading multinationals, the model laid out in this book breaks apart performance into its component pieces, optimizes each one, and stitches them seamlessly back together.

Practical and easy to understand, this book breaks down the most significant scientific research on performance so it's accessible for anyone, then links it to how practitioners aspiring to become world class in their crafts can benefit from the underlying principles and drive towards optimal performance.

Providing an integrated view that is generally missing in the thinking and development of professional athletes and top executives alike, the book arms ambitious dreamers with a system that leaves an impact on the court, field, boardroom, or stage; as well as on how you think, learn, practice, and program your road to Mastery. It will take you on a journey to learn how to analyze and understand your craft at such a deep, foundational level that you begin working on details that most people are completely unaware of. Learn how the different pieces or disciplines stack together to drive optimal performance with The Optimal Performance Formula.

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Bookshop.org US $17.62 Blackwells £ Waterstones £16.99

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Q. Do you have a favourite smart thinking book (and why that book)?

Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life by Jim Murphy.
This book is great because it help readers understand not just how to drive performance, but how to do it while gaining inner peace and fulfilment. It’s a Zen-esque philosophy applied to the challenges of modern elite performers in sports.”.

Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life

Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life

Jim Murphy

Description from Waterstones:
TRAIN YOUR BRAIN FOR EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS Now more than ever, you need a competitive edge to succeed-no matter what your field or profession. This step-by-step training manual from one of North America's top performance coaches taps into the winning mindsets of Olympic stars, professional sports teams, and Navy Seals among others to help you achieve higher levels of performance than you ever thought possible.

Jim Murphy's complete program of proven mental techniques is based on life principles that easily apply to your company, your career, and everything you do. Inner Excellence shows you how to: CONNECT WITH YOUR PASSION-and run with it FOCUS YOUR ENERGY-and reach your goals BUILD ON YOUR STRENGTHS-and live your dreams GET IN THE ZONE-and achieve the extraordinary Filled with mental performance-enhancing exercises, creative goal-driven game plans, and 50 inspiring interviews, Inner Excellence raises the bar for success in business and in life.

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Blackwells £ Waterstones £14.99

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Q. What's the most recent smart thinking book you've read (and how would you rate it)?

Almost Perfect: The Life Guide to Creating Your Success Story Through Passion and Fearlessness by Erika Lemay.
I really enjoyed this book because it takes you inside the head of an elite performer and the extreme dedication and attention to optimizing every little detail it requires.

Almost Perfect: The Life Guide to Creating Your Success Story Through Passion and Fearlessness

Almost Perfect: The Life Guide to Creating Your Success Story Through Passion and Fearlessness

Erika Lemay

Description from Blackwells:
Saves readers years of doubts and procrastination by sharing the method, Erika Lemay makes the extraordinary skills reachable to everyone.

An incredible path explained, with the 'why' and 'how' in details.
Helps readers understand why successful people are successful.
Shows everyone that their dreams are achievable.
Exposes the biohackers secrets.
Gives an easy plan for anyone who's always dreamed of upgrading themselves.

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Bookshop.org US $16.69 Blackwells £12.95 Waterstones £12.95

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Q. Do you have a favourite childhood book?

TThe John Carter of Mars Collection by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
As a child I loved the John Carter of Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The John Carter of Mars Collection

The John Carter of Mars Collection

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Description from Bookshop.org:
This Purple Rose book is a collection of the first five stories in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series: A Princess of Mars (1917), The Gods of Mars (1918), The Warlord of Mars (1919), Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1920) and The Chessmen of Mars (1922). It contains all of the original frontispieces by Frank Schoonover and J. Allen St. John, enhanced and enlarged and is a high quality book with clear formatting and detailed contents. Visit Purple Rose at www.purplerosebooks.com and view our other titles and new releases. John Carter is the hero of Burroughs' Barsoom series. He first appeared in Under the Moons of Mars (later retitled A Princess of Mars) the story which catapaulted Burroughs into the limelight. It was the first of many novels and several sequels followed over the next three decades, further extending Burroughs' vision of Barsoom.

The world of Barsoom is a romantic vision of a dying Mars, based on now outdated scientific ideas made popular by Astronomer Percival Lowell in the early 20th century. While depicting many outlandish inventions, and advanced technology, it is a savage, 'frontier' world, of honor, noble sacrifice and constant struggle, where martial prowess is paramount, and where many races fight over dwindling resources. It is filled with lost cities, heroic adventures and undiscovered ancient secrets. The series has inspired a number of well known science fiction writers, and also key scientists involved in both space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life. It has informed and been adapted by many writers, in novels, short stories, television and film.

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Bookshop.org UK £19.49 Bookshop.org US $25.95 Blackwells £22.75 Waterstones £19.99

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Q. Do you prefer reading on paper, Kindle or listening to an audiobook?

Kindle. It allows me to highlight then download notes on books with interesting concepts and ideas. Also, it allows me to take my whole library with me while travelling without the weight of print books.


Q. Do you have a favourite bookshop (and why that shop)?


Amazon.com. It’s got everything and I can download e-books instantly.


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Many thanks to Adolfo for recommending a brilliant bunch of books! Please don't forget to check out The Optimal Performance Formula: An Actionable Blueprint For Those Passionate About Achieving the Impossible.
Daryl


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