Dialed In, Dana Sinclair
Dialed In, Dana Sinclair
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Dialed In
Do Your Best When It Matters Most

Author: Dana Sinclair, Dana Sinclair

Narrator: Eunice Wong

Unabridged: 7 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/02/2024


Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

For readers of Atomic Habits and Grit, a top performance psychologist, who has coached elite athletes, surgeons, and business leaders, shares her proven plan to getting the best results when the pressure is on.

What do a major league baseball catcher struggling with pop ups, an operating room doctor tense before a surgery, and a slumping sixteen-year-old tennis prodigy all have in common? They’re elite performers who are not achieving excellence, and they’re not sure how to improve.

Enter Dr. Dana Sinclair. For more than twenty years, Dr. Dana has worked with the best of the best to improve results, from NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL teams to IndyCar drivers and Olympic athletes. She helps performers shift their focus and deliver optimal performance in high-pressure moments that define greatness. Her methods also work for students and teachers, business leaders and managers—anyone motivated to improve. Her approach is simple: figure out what gets in your way, develop actions to address it in the moment, and then stick to the plan. It’s not about how you feel, it’s about what you do!

Now, for the first time, her method to improve performance is available to everyone. In Part One of Dialed In, Dr. Dana shares her key concepts:

-the true nature of confidence (it’s overrated)
-the difference between good routines and unhelpful superstitions
-good communicating vs. common bad advice
-why character is better than talent, and much more

In Part Two, she takes us through her three-step process for making your own performance plans, with five helpful examples to illustrate how it’s done. There are also leading questions and quick tips to help you better develop your personalized performance plan for whatever challenges you face.

Simple, smart, and effective, Dialed In is like having your own performance coach in your back pocket.

About Dana Sinclair

Dr. Dana Sinclair is a founder and partner of Human Performance International, a Toronto-based management consulting firm. She has worked with professional teams and athletes in the NFL, MLB, NBA, WNBA, NHL, MLS, IndyCar, WTA, PGA, and the Olympics, as well as high-level executives, surgeons, actors, musicians, and more. Sinclair is a licensed psychologist and hold doctorates from the University of Cambridge and the University of Ottawa, is a clinical assistant professor with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, and a specialist lecturer with the Royal Institute of British Architects.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Zoe on January 08, 2024

I have to admit I don’t often read a lot of nonfiction, but when I saw this upcoming release by performance psychologist 𝐃𝐫. πƒπšπ§πš π’π’π§πœπ₯𝐚𝐒𝐫, I knew as a woman, wife, and mother of collegiate athletes, I had to request it, and boy am I glad I did. Not only is it clear, precise, interesting, relevant,......more

Goodreads review by Yiwen on October 08, 2024

I would give this book a 4.5 out of 5 stars if I could. I learned a lot, such as how breathing it out and breathing well can enhance performance, common derailers of performance, the difference between good routines and unhelpful superstitions, that confidence is overrated (it’s what you do, not wha......more

Goodreads review by Elle SeasonsofStories on May 07, 2024

This was another great book to start the year. Sinclair is a performance psychologist who has worked with professional athletes, coaches, surgeons, and performers to help them get through performance-related anxiety or other issues. . I personally read this book in the hopes of trying to find some co......more

Goodreads review by Tom on February 11, 2024

I really enjoyed this book and learned some interesting techniques. I am just a retired guy who has taken up piano and loves it. The problem I have, besides having little talent, is that when I play in front of people - I freeze. I lose my place and can't find it etc etc. This book gave me invaluabl......more

Goodreads review by Kate on April 17, 2024

This was a good book, just different than I was expecting. The author is a performance psychologist and works with a lot of professional athletes, so many of the examples in the book consisted of that, which didn't hold my interest as much as I had hoped. The basic principles of the book can be tran......more