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Work On Your Game: Use the Pro Athlete Mindset to Dominate Your Game in Business, Sports, and Life
Your game plan for career success--from International Basketball Pro Dre BaldwinNo one knows how to turn unrelenting self-belief into hard-and-fast career results better than Dre Baldwin. When everyone and everything was telling him to give up on his goal of playing pro basketball, he got focused on his future, and met the challenge head on. In the end, Baldwin succeeded--making a living playing basketball in leagues around the world--and in these pages, he shares all his secrets.Whether you're just starting out in business or looking to take your career to the next level, Work On Your Game provides the strategy you need to succeed from the inside-out. Dre Baldwin, or "DreAllDay," as his fans know him, delivers an easy-to-understand four-part model for achieving any goal. It's based on discipline, confidence, mental toughness, and personal initiative--and it's proven effective. Baldwin takes you through the steps of identifying what's expected of you, preparing for what's coming, and conditioning your body and mind for the competitive world of business--and everything is a business.Baldwin's personal story of beating the odds is both inspiring and instructional. You'll learn how to play the mental game in a way that launches you towards unparalleled achievement.
272 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 22, 2019
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May 15, 2019
Stop playing scared. Buy a game -- meaning, do the work to get good at something. You've got to have discipline, confidence, mental toughness, and personal initiative. What's your trumpet of victory? (Meaning, what gives you the signal that it's time to succeed?) How do you kill those automatic negative thoughts? Dre covers how to handle stage fright, how to deal with doubters and naysayers, and how to talk about yourself as a successful person. And on and on. There's so much good advice in this book by Dre Baldwin that it would be a crime for you not to buy it, read it, and put his advice into action.
August 30, 2019
“Your Plan B exists only when you don’t believe strongly enough in Plan A. When you’re all-in on Plan A, you do whatever it takes to make Plan A work, including using the resources you would have applied to Plan B.…The very act, mentally or physically, of making a Plan B, C, or D is a message to your subconscious mind that you’re not 100 percent sure Plan A will work. And it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.“
In WORK YOUR GAME, Dre Baldwin shares his four-point approach to success, which includes discipline, confidence, mental toughness, and personal initiative. Baldwin set his sights on playing pro basketball after being cut from his division three basketball team as a college senior and graduating with a business degree. Through hard work, he achieved his goal. His system can be applied to any pursuit.
The book is divided into twelve chapters which expand on his four-point approach: cardio for the mind; the third day and beyond; super you; illuminate self-consciousness and performance anxiety, forever; what are you afraid of?; mental toughness; go-getter; selling yourself; your interpersonal game; mentorship; bad mental errors the good people make, and don’t live by the book. He includes “examine your game“ boxes throughout the book which include questions and ideas to help the reader work on their game.
In his introduction, Baldwin mentions an eighth grader who gave him the following advice after beating him in a game of one on one, “stop playing scared and buy a game/get some skills.” This advice, which translates to “Skills + Mental Game = Success” forms the basis of the system.
The concepts and advice provided are solid. Baldwin does a great job of explaining his philosophy in accessible terms. For example, he references the vending machine of success. You have to pay/put in the work before receiving rewards. If candy gets stuck, you might have to shake things up. Trying the cheat the machine doesn’t result in real success. If you don’t stick with it, your stuck candy will go to the next customer. The price of the reward may change. Make sure to press the buttons for the reward you want. He also uses the phrase “applied faith” to believing in and acting on a personal vision, even when results aren’t yet evident. He elevates the popular advice “fake it until you make it” to the more robust “Be-Do-Have”model and explains how to conquer performance anxiety and handle criticism. In his chapter on mental errors, he summaries many of his concepts and provides new perspectives. I plan on reviewing that chapter whenever I need a refresher.
WORK YOUR GAME is a great resource for success in any endeavor. Baldwin does an excellent job of making his philosophy clear, accessible, and inspiring,
Thanks to Amazon and McGraw-Hill Education for providing a copy for review purposes.
In WORK YOUR GAME, Dre Baldwin shares his four-point approach to success, which includes discipline, confidence, mental toughness, and personal initiative. Baldwin set his sights on playing pro basketball after being cut from his division three basketball team as a college senior and graduating with a business degree. Through hard work, he achieved his goal. His system can be applied to any pursuit.
The book is divided into twelve chapters which expand on his four-point approach: cardio for the mind; the third day and beyond; super you; illuminate self-consciousness and performance anxiety, forever; what are you afraid of?; mental toughness; go-getter; selling yourself; your interpersonal game; mentorship; bad mental errors the good people make, and don’t live by the book. He includes “examine your game“ boxes throughout the book which include questions and ideas to help the reader work on their game.
In his introduction, Baldwin mentions an eighth grader who gave him the following advice after beating him in a game of one on one, “stop playing scared and buy a game/get some skills.” This advice, which translates to “Skills + Mental Game = Success” forms the basis of the system.
The concepts and advice provided are solid. Baldwin does a great job of explaining his philosophy in accessible terms. For example, he references the vending machine of success. You have to pay/put in the work before receiving rewards. If candy gets stuck, you might have to shake things up. Trying the cheat the machine doesn’t result in real success. If you don’t stick with it, your stuck candy will go to the next customer. The price of the reward may change. Make sure to press the buttons for the reward you want. He also uses the phrase “applied faith” to believing in and acting on a personal vision, even when results aren’t yet evident. He elevates the popular advice “fake it until you make it” to the more robust “Be-Do-Have”model and explains how to conquer performance anxiety and handle criticism. In his chapter on mental errors, he summaries many of his concepts and provides new perspectives. I plan on reviewing that chapter whenever I need a refresher.
WORK YOUR GAME is a great resource for success in any endeavor. Baldwin does an excellent job of making his philosophy clear, accessible, and inspiring,
Thanks to Amazon and McGraw-Hill Education for providing a copy for review purposes.
February 22, 2019
Dre Baldwin is my favorite author, because his books are straight to the point; no nonsense, and contain the right information that I can apply to my life to become a better and more succesful young man. I have not read this book yet, but I'm sure it will be a great read, just like his bulletproof bundle for all the aforementioned reasons. I recommend this to every person, male or female, who wants to improve their situation and has the drive to work to be succesful.
February 22, 2019
Dre Baldwin is my favorite author, because his books are straight to the point; no nonsense, and contain the right information that I can apply to my life to become a better and more succesful young man. I have not read this book yet, but I'm sure it will be a great read, just like his bulletproof bundle for all the aforementioned reasons. I recommend this to every person, male or female, who wants to improve their situation and has the drive to work to be succesful.
February 25, 2019
Best book I've ever read!
February 25, 2019
The best book for anyone that wants to be successful in ANYTHING that they're doing.
Dre's the true GOAT
Dre's the true GOAT
February 28, 2019
One of the greatest book ever
Will help you self-Develope
And a Great author
Will help you self-Develope
And a Great author
April 29, 2019
Good book about keeping focus and styaing on track.
February 24, 2019
Loved the podcast. Sure will love this book
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