Nov. 8, 2004 – Dark Bird Press has announced the publication of their latest book on sports psychology and the game of golf. Inner Game: Breaking Golf's Unbreakable Barriers authored by Dr. Mac Powell will revolutionize the way you think about and utilize your personality in your round. The sample of the book is at available at www.innergame.org.
Personality rules performance in all athletic mediums, yet the paramount importance of personality in golf remains largely unnoticed and unaddressed. The significance of personality in golf is due to the individual "stand alone" nature of the game and its timing. In a four-hour round, a golfer is in the process of swinging the club less than five minutes.
The rest of the time should be devoted to mastering the mental game, overcoming the limits of personality, and maximizing physical assets. Golfers regularly fail to see the limits of their personality and become patterned, repeating inconsistent performance after inconsistent performance. Optimizing performance requires understanding your personality and its tendencies, and recognizing that there is no room for mental preparation once you've addressed the ball.
You must have prepared for the shot well before you begin your pre-shot routine, before you've entered the course, before you've finished your practice at the range. The problem is not that personality determines behavior, but that people are unaware of their personality's importance. All personalities have strengths and weaknesses, and all personalities have unique tendencies that make slipping into the zone easier if you are aware of the mechanisms. Enhanced performance in any sport, but particularly golf, requires understanding and mastering the way personality and mental processes determine particular outcomes.
Inner Game: Breaking Golf's Unbreakable Barriers addresses personality in terms of Types, unique characteristics that form the ‘what of who we are’. Once you have a grasp of who you are and what particular tendencies you have in performance, the book offers a set of Basic Skills and Skills for Mastery that will assist golfers of varying abilities with mastering the mental game. Exercises in the back of the book offer practical technical solutions, drills and practice aids, personality inventories, and worksheets to assist players to maximize their mental and physical efforts on the course.
For additional information, retail or wholesale ordering, contact Dark Bird Press at (818) 430-0097 or visit our website at www.innergame.org.
