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Think Like a Winner | 
 enlarge | Author: Yehuda Shinar
Publisher: Vermilion
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 15170
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0091923697
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
EAN: 9780091923693
ASIN: 0091923697
Publication Date: September 4, 2008
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 Better than you would imagine January 27, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Self help manuals make me cringe. "All platitudes and mumbo jumbo with a smattering of pyschobabble" would be my usual assessment. However, this book is very different. It presents 'winning strategies' for life and sport in a fairly low key, almost conversational style. The concepts are simple and very practical. You don't need a PhD or to be a star athlete to benefit. I found myself reading the book and making notes. As the author maintains reading alone is passive, annotating is active; this was worth the effort. I found lots of 'aha' moments when I recognised my own behaviour and also 'grasped' the advice as to how to flip the behaviour from 'failure' to 'success'. Mr Shinar has many coaching credits to his name and yet his approach is more 'guide on the side' than 'sage on the stage'. I thought his advice and philosophy to be full of commonsense, warmly unfussy, and hugely effective. The cover is a lot brasher than the author. I would highly recommend this book.
 an easy-to-follow book November 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not surprisingly, there is a glut of self-help books on the market. But there are a few books which title is similar to this one, which does surprise me. Their points bear a strong resemblance to each other as well. That's why, judging from the title, I felt initially this book could be another boring one.
The ideas in this book are not unfamiliar ones; the book doesn't adopt a revolutionary approach as well. However, having followed the simple exercises and advices in this book, I ended up with locating successfully my weaknesses and coming across a couple of potential solutions. Most importantly, it reminds me that although learning lessons from failures is imperative, continuous debriefing of the process of our successes is another key to an ultimate winner. Now I am aware that I totally neglected the latter one, which might have undermined my self-confidence to some degree.
All in all, the messages in this book are simple and easy to follow. Each reader may find different useful advices from it.
A simple book that makes common sense September 8, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've read a fair few "life improvement" books in my time. Most of them promise something "new" and "revolutionary" but end up saying the same old thing. This one, however, is a bit different - partly because it doesn't claim to be revolutionary at all. In fact, as Clive Woodward says in the foreword, it's amazing because it is so simple. Rather than try and hoodwink you with pseudo psychobabble that has precious little substance, the book sets out in common sense terms how to increase your frequency of success by turning the art of winning into a learnable, repeatable science. We all succeed sometimes, and we all fail sometimes. But when we understand why we succeed and why we fail, we can increase our frequency of success and decrease our frequency of failure - thus becoming "winners". There are plenty of useful tips in there about how to put the theory into practice too. All that said, it is a bit over-simplistic in places, and although the conversational style is easy to read, the fixation with "winners" can get a bit wearing. And it's a tad on the long side: it's 200 pages long but I reckon I'd pretty much got the hang of it by about half-way through. Still, it's definitely well worth a read.
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