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Concluding the sale. Asking for a raise. Nailing the top presentation. Of the 2 2,000 hours you work each year, your success or failing is determined in the couple of dozen crucial hours when you need to bring your best. Will you? The previous few minutes before a major obstacle can be terrifying. Ever before wished you realized how to make sure you ace the make-or-break test, audition, or interview? We often have the most powerless right before we're expected to act powerful. As you'll learn in this life-changing publication, practice might create perfect, but perfection is useless if you can't summon it when it matters. Pulling off a great conversation or the pivotal at bat also requires the right kind of mental preparation. In Psyched Up, journalist Daniel McGinn dives in to the latest emotional research and interviews sports athletes, soldiers, entertainers, and others who, despite years of practice and enviable trail records, will ultimately be judged on the ability to deliver a good performance when it's their consider shine. For example, he unveils:

• How Jerry Seinfeld's coat and Stephen Colbert's pen help them get laughs
• What General Stanley McChrystal said to Special Forces before they inserted the battlefield
• Why the New England Patriots appointed the DJ from the Red Sox to help them win

Among other counterintuitive insights, McGinn unveils why looking to quiet your backstage jitters can be worse for your performance than channeling it into excitement, how meaningless rituals can do more to prepare you in the ultimate occasions than last-minute rehearsal, and what sort of prescription from your physician could help you unleash your very best skills. Whether you're a sportsperson or a salesperson, an acting professional or a business owner, one bad hour can throw away months of effort. There's a whole lot conflicting popular advice that we often conclude doing the wrong things. McGinn separates the facts from the old wives' stories and stocks new research-driven approaches for activating your skill, optimizing your emotions, and getting psyched up for taking the spotlight.