A ready reckoner to Bob Rotella’s tips for champs

Tips by acclaimed sports psychologist Bob Rotella, who has been advising everyone from professional golfers to NBA superstars to business executives on how to flourish under pressure and overcome challenges, have been compiled into a ready reckoner.

“How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life” consists of performance principles that have proven themselves in countless competitive situations, in arenas from which only the strongest minds emerge <g data-gr-id="12">triumphant</g>.

It explores how to keep the mind from holding one back, whatever one’s physical gifts or other talents. It’s about how to make a commitment, how to persevere, how to deal with failure - and how to train one’s mind to create a self-image that promotes confidence and accomplishment.

Rotella was the director of sports psychology for 20 years at the University of Virginia, where his reputation grew as the person champions talked to about the mental aspects of their game.