Teach Yourself to Win: Cy Young Winner Steve Stone Tells What It Takes to Make Success a Habit
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| Title | : | Teach Yourself to Win: Cy Young Winner Steve Stone Tells What It Takes to Make Success a Habit |
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0929387546 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 201 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
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Cy Young award winner Steve Stone tells how to get motivated. A self-help book with a big league baseball twist.
Editorial : From Library Journal Keying in on the importance of being focused on the task at hand, former Major League pitcher Stone uses his baseball career to show how success can be attained. He credits meditation and mental imagery as critical factors in turning his pitching career around and making him a Cy Young Award winner. Interspersed throughout are additional guidelines for success, such as developing a positive attitude, doing away with excuses, having confidence in yourself, and being willing to accept failure. Interesting anecdotes about baseball personalities such as Harry Caray, Willie Mays, and Thurman Munson are mixed in with Stone's philosophy. Unfortunately, the sequence of events is difficult to follow, and at times baseball stories seem thrown in haphazardly, without illustrating a particular point. There is good information here, but, typical of many books written by athletes, it espouses the philosophy, "since it worked for me, it will work for everyone."-- Kenneth G. Tillm
The spacing pushes everything together and there are typos. I know this is a old book but I love supporting people like her because I'm always left inspired. I was hoping when I purchased this expensive book that it would have all the info I will need to take the exam, and I realized that it is lacking tons of information, definition, or even labeling of different body partsfor example, at the nervous system the author is talking about the diencephalon and in the illustration it doesn't show where the heck it is, and it didn't even show where the cerebrum or midbrain is. Book arrived on time and exactly as described. Extremely well written. It have many photos, with color photos at the back, including photos and a range map (all a bit small) of each species of bumblebee in North America (about 50 bees, three photos each). Random Mcnally is the best.. How on earth could I be healthy when I could possibly be allergic to most of what I'm eating? I did my own test for several weeks and wou
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