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  • By: Jonathan Adler
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  • Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
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Summary

An alternative to popular positive thinking, this groundbreaking audiobook on golf psychology, reveals the practical mindfulness, techniques, and philosophies that will help you to play your best golf when it matters. Author Jon Adler has worked with touring professionals and amateurs for over 10 years, helping them to overcome mental problems and blocks by developing the art of relaxed concentration.

In this book there are practical exercises, psychological ideas, and interesting stories to help you to:

  • Play your best golf when it matters
  • Stop getting so frustrated when you play
  • Develop a calm and equanimous mind
  • Understand how anxiety affects your game
  • Improve your concentration
  • Stop doubting your ability
  • Develop trust and confidence
  • Discover how you get in your own way
  • Strike the ball like you do in practice
  • Overcome anxiety
  • Chip it stiff
  • Develop confidence and feel on the putting green
  • Learn to concentrate under pressure

What do you do when positive thinking stops working? Really, I’m serious. If you have ever tried being really positive while playing golf, you may have experienced some success, but what do you do when you start playing poorly? It is very hard to keep positive when you have no idea where the ball is going. I tried the positive thinking route myself and when things got tough the only explanation for my poor performance was that I was not being positive enough. There had to be more to it than that I thought, so I went about trying to discover the truth about how our mind gets in the way of good performance. What I found, changed the way I played and coached golfers forever.

I am sharing my techniques with you, having practiced them with golfers of all abilities for the last ten years.

The key skill that you will learn to improve is the skill that underpins peak performance in every walk of life: relaxed concentration. Golfers and golf commentators often talk about focusing well and good concentration, but there is little information about how to improve and perfect relaxed concentration, a skill that all agree is a prerequisite for good golf.

This is not popular golf psychology. I will not encourage you to sit in a chair, close your eyes, and imagine yourself playing really well. If you want the positive thinking route then don’t buy this audiobook. I only deal with reality. In fact it has been said that my techniques are so simple that you actually think much less on the golf course and play better. Does that sound good to you?

Are you ready to uncover your potential?

©2012 Jonathan Adler (P)2019 Jonathan Adler

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Nowhere near as good as Bob Rotella.

First 4 chapters boring as dull ditch water.
Unexciting narration by the author did NOT help. They should have paid for a professional narrator.
Gave up and deleted part way through chapter 6.
Maybe others will buy in to it...but definitely not for me, sorry.

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Dull

3 hours of my life I won’t ever get back. The review title says it all. If AI wrote a golf psychology book this would be it.

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Good, solid advice.

Joanthan Adler states early on that there is no magic bullet, no quick fix. Application and practice will be needed. I've listened to this book twice and bought the paperback version as well, and the advice is deceptively simple, but cuts straight to the chase. Since listening and applying some of Jonathan's techniques I have enjoyed my last six rounds much more than dozens before. Bought a copy for a friend and he has tangibly changed for the better. This won't be for all - it requires effort, thought & application - but I recommend it wholeheartedly if you actually want to change the way you approach the game for the better.

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Very interesting

A very interesting book one I will listen to over again well worth a read thank you

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Very Interesting

Very interested to see if this was any good. it was and I have faith that it may bring dividends. I tried it briefly last game and it seemed to bring results straight away. plus it certainly won't hurt to go about life a little calmer and more relaxed.

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Utterly boring and pointless

Never has a sports psychology book contained so much sanctimonious regurgitation of the obvious. From the ‘rice pudding’ parable at the beginning to the insensitive likening of a golfer’s mind to that of an alcoholic, the author consistently condescends us with boarder line offensive simplifications of the human experience. With frequently used instructions beginning with ‘Don’t…’, Simply…’ and ‘Just…’, along with an early disclaimer in chapter 2 essentially stating that poor results will be down to our lack of application, the author squares responsibility on the reader with seemingly tactless relish. The subject matter goes far deeper than this book takes us. Frankly I could have written it…I’m serious.

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Change your attitude, change your game

Game changing book. Dont listen to the negative reviews and comparisons with Bob Rotella, what is included in this book is gold dust. Cant recommend highly enough

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Change your mind

Excellent book with some good exercises , remain in the now, enjoy what you are doing, enjoy Golf and listen to how you talk to understand how your mind is working.

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Every Golfer Needs To Listen To This!

Simple and effective approach to improving your performance on the links. The author also delivers the message in a beautifully calm manner which just adds to the experience. Excellent listen.

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Very repetitive

It was a slow book that was very repetitive I haven’t found it helpful at all.

A good meditation practice is better help.

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