Performance

Training the body and mind

This library is for anyone drawn to how people get good at hard things, and then great. It gathers books on the trained body and the trained mind: how athletes, performers and practitioners build skill, endure, focus, and hold their nerve when it counts.

The library explores:

• How the body is built and fueled: strength, endurance, movement, nutrition, sleep and recovery
• How the mind performs: focus, flow, expertise, memory, and composure under pressure
• How elite coaches and athletes train, prepare and lead
• How the old disciplines of yoga, breath and meditation school body and mind together
• How performers in the arts, from actors to dancers, train their instrument

It draws on sport, science, coaching, contemplative practice and the performing arts, from field manuals to memoirs, ancient texts to modern research.

Growing. The shelves and selections are still being developed.