Download or read book SMASH The Rise of Indian Badminton written by Benedict Paramanand and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Badminton has become a popular sport in India thanks to Prakash Padukone, Pullela Gopichand, Saina Nehwal, P V Sindhu, Jwala Gutta, Ashwini Ponnappa, Kidambi Srikanth, and a few others. Each of them has a riveting story. The author has tried to weave all their stories into a fascinating canvas. This book is about how Indian badminton emerged as a global powerhouse in over a decade; what’s gone into the making of several world champions; who all played pivotal roles, and much more. It also reflects on the current shortcomings that could slow down the rise of the sport and how they could be addressed. Anyone keen on learning the secrets of peak performance from Indian champions and their coaches; how to bounce back stronger from setbacks; how and how not to lead a team, will find this book appealing. I hope people learn a lot about the history of Indian badminton from this book, Jwala Gutta, Indian Doubles Champion
Download or read book COMMONERS ANECDOTES written by AMAN ANAND and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That evening while I frantically wept and walked inside my house, while my mother’s hearse lay in the verandah. Something strange happened. With no fan being used in the house, all windows closed on a winter evening. Friends, neighbors, and my father’s colleague standing outside, I walked aimlessly in my room.
Download or read book Playing to Win written by Saina Nehwal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘. . . being a player from India defines who I am. When I play, it’s for my parents, my coach, and my country.’ Meet Saina Nehwal—India’s star badminton player and World Number 4, Padma Shri and Khel Ratna awardee, the girl who brought laurels to India by winning an Olympic medal at the age of twenty-two. In this fascinating memoir, she talks about her childhood and growing–up years; her relationship with the most important people in her life; the ups and downs of her celebrated career, from district level wins to the Olympics; and the sacrifices needed to succeed in any sport. She also reveals little-known facts and offers a peek into her many avatars—daughter, sister, student, and the regular girl behind the badminton prodigy. Find out what a typical day in Saina’s life is like—rigorous training, a strict diet, and no parties or sleepovers. But it’s not all work and no play; Saina loves to shop, eat ice cream (post wins only), and play games on her iPad! With candid photographs and badminton tips from the pro herself, this book showcases the making of a badminton champ—in her own words.
Download or read book Range written by David Epstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking—with a new afterword on expanding your range—as seen on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, and more. “The most important business—and parenting—book of the year.” —Forbes “Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance.” —Daniel H. Pink Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you’ll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer look at research on the world’s top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule. David Epstein examined the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. He discovered that in most fields—especially those that are complex and unpredictable—generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. Generalists often find their path late, and they juggle many interests rather than focusing on one. They’re also more creative, more agile, and able to make connections their more specialized peers can’t see. Provocative, rigorous, and engrossing, Range makes a compelling case for actively cultivating inefficiency. Failing a test is the best way to learn. Frequent quitters end up with the most fulfilling careers. The most impactful inventors cross domains rather than deepening their knowledge in a single area. As experts silo themselves further while computers master more of the skills once reserved for highly focused humans, people who think broadly and embrace diverse experiences and perspectives will increasingly thrive.
Download or read book Flourishing for Sports written by Crystal Wu and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about flourishing of life in the field of sports. It contains the latest concepts about psychological well-being, from the perspectives of positive psychology. Unlike most of the psychological books about sports, which usually focus on achieving sporting success and excellence, this book emphasises how athletes can draw on their strengths to become flourished whole persons. Fascinating stories of a respectable sporting role model, Roger Federer, will be told. If you are an athlete or a sports fan, you will find this book very easy and interesting to follow. Even if you are not, you will find the book useful as long as you are a pursuer of happiness and a quality life. In this book, I encourage you to look for some valuable ideas that may help you enhance your psychological well-being. My hope is that reading this book will be an initial step leading you to a life-long journey of pursuing a flourished life of your own.
Download or read book Changing the Game written by John O'Sullivan and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern day youth sports environment has taken the enjoyment out of athletics for our children. Currently, 70% of kids drop out of organized sports by the age of 13, which has given rise to a generation of overweight, unhealthy young adults. There is a solution. John O’Sullivan shares the secrets of the coaches and parents who have not only raised elite athletes, but have done so by creating an environment that promotes positive core values and teaches life lessons instead of focusing on wins and losses, scholarships, and professional aspirations. Changing the Game gives adults a new paradigm and a game plan for raising happy, high performing children, and provides a national call to action to return youth sports to our kids.
Download or read book We Were the All American Girls written by Jim Sargent and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are 42 interviews with women who competed in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Each interview features data about the player, a short summary of her athletic career, and the player's recollections. A brief history covers the many changes as the league evolved from underhand pitching with a 12-inch circumference ball in 1943 to overhand pitching, adopted in 1948, through the circuit's final year, 1954, when a regulation baseball was introduced. The interviews range from 1995 to 2012 and reveal details of particular games, highlights of individual careers, the camaraderie of teammates, opponents and fans, and the impact the League made on their lives. Several players recall how the 1992 movie A League of Their Own brought the historic All-American League back to life almost 40 years after the final game was played.
Download or read book Life Is Like a Journey on a Train written by Dr.CA Vishnu Bharath Alampali and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All humans are tourists & God is Travel agent who has already fixed all the routes, reservations & destinations. So! Trust God and enjoy the trip called LIFE. LIFE IS LIKE A JOURNEY ON A TRAIN. No one in this world is pure and perfect. If you avoid people for their small mistakes, you will always be alone, so judge less and love more! Life is from date of birth to date of death . Life is made of millions of moments. You only live once, make the best use of it. What matters is not how long you live but how well you live. When life is like a sour lemon, make the best use of it; make lemonade. Dr. CA Vishnu Bharath Alampali
Download or read book The Death of You written by Luke Sutton and published by White Owl. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably the greatest Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps, with twenty-eight Olympic medals to his name, was asked if he would like his children to follow in his footsteps. His answer, 'Honestly, in a perfect world, Id say no. Just because I dont want them to live in my footsteps. And I also know everything about it I know the ins and the outs, the good, the bad, and the ugly. So, you know, as a parent, it just it frightens me. The truth is that the vast majority of the public dont understand this alarming answer from Phelps. The question as to why so many elite sportspeople fall off the edge of a cliff in life when they retire is often answered in either a too complicated or too simplistic way to give people a meaningful answer. This book changes that. Using brutally honest interviews with sport stars Matthew Hoggard, Paul Walsh, Gail Emms, Tom May, Johnny Nelson and Clare Shine, Luke Sutton breaks down why this happens for a reader in a way that hasnt been done yet. Anyone fascinated by sport or elite performance in general will be enthralled by this book. There is so much to take from it.
Download or read book Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick written by Chris Bradley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beat the odds with a bold strategy from McKinsey & Company "Every once in a while, a genuinely fresh approach to business strategy appears" —legendary business professor Richard Rumelt, UCLA McKinsey & Company's newest, most definitive, and most irreverent book on strategy—which thousands of executives are already using—is a must-read for all C-suite executives looking to create winning corporate strategies. Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick is spearheading an empirical revolution in the field of strategy. Based on an extensive analysis of the key factors that drove the long-term performance of thousands of global companies, the book offers a ground-breaking formula that enables you to objectively assess your strategy's real odds of future success. "This book is fundamental. The principles laid out here, with compelling data, are a great way around the social pitfalls in strategy development." —Frans Van Houten, CEO, Royal Philips N.V. The authors have discovered that over a 10-year period, just 1 in 12 companies manage to jump from the middle tier of corporate performance—where 60% of companies reside, making very little economic profit—to the top quintile where 90% of global economic profit is made. This movement does not happen by magic—it depends on your company's current position, the trends it faces, and the big moves you make to give it the strongest chance of vaulting over the competition. This is not another strategy framework. Rather, Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick shows, through empirical analysis and the experiences of dozens of companies that have successfully made multiple big moves, that to dramatically improve performance, you have to overcome incrementalism and corporate inertia. "A different kind of book—I couldn't put it down. Inspiring new insights on the facts of what it takes to move a company's performance, combined with practical advice on how to deal with real-life dynamics in management teams." —Jane Fraser, CEO, Citigroup Latin America
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Download or read book Passport To Success written by Dr. Tushar Chothani and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brief story, the author has shared his life experiences about how people get SUCCESS in their lives. Success is a relative term and will keep changing from person to person, but the fundamentals or principles remain same. This story, Passport to Success is a simple combination of learnings, which are the most essential ingredients for success. The book not only looks into the past about how people became SUCCESSFUL, but also has important inputs about how to use it in your personal life right now. The best way to use this book is to become friends with Rahul and do whatever he does. Read a chapter in a day and within a week you will complete this book. But just reading it would not help, you have to do some little exercises given in each chapter and get the feel of your PASSPORT TO SUCCESS getting ready.
Download or read book WHO KNOWS US BETTER FAMILY OR FRIENDS written by and published by sarvad publication. This book was released on 2022-12-03 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no one in this world to know us more than ourselves, because we hide everything inside ourselves and the things that others know are the minutest things that have taken part in our life. Sharing our problems and feelings is indeed good thing since it will help us from getting into mere despair. But still we all keep more secrets inside us. Maybe to see others happy or may be to sustain the relationship just like we love them. So who knows us better. Let’s take family as an example. What do they know? They know how we grew up. What our likes and dislikes are, what are we capable of and all other things. Do they really know how we feel. What are we going through and what all changes are we facing in our day to day life. No they don’t. And they will never know because they likes to see their child to be perfect and to be happy so we keep somethings unaware of them, That’s how life goes on and that is how we all live this life by keeping most of the things to ourselves. And if we take friends as an example maybe they know a little more than our family because we feel comfortable to share our feelings around them. Even if it is so they still doesn’t know much about us because we don’t know how will they react and there comes secrets. So that is why we are the ones who knows us better than anyone else.
Download or read book Unheard Love written by Kavya Mahadik and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey from, "You're mine." to "Was it a dream?" An illusion, that changed a life.
Download or read book A Daughter s First Love Dad written by BP Bhavana and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a memoir on the author’s father, BK Purushothama, a dynamic person, an educationist and a visionary. This book touches upon leadership lessons, life lessons and spiritual aspects of life. It showcases how ordinary people can also lead an extraordinary life if only they begin to believe in themselves. It narrates how one man could inspire, influence and impact hundreds of people in his lifetime by living his life of values and beliefs. The memoir is for all those who seek answers to, the why, what and how of life. This book is a work of art that empowers us to overcome our own barriers in life and brings with it the illuminating opportunity to transform our relationships. There is no greater role model than a father who speaks through his daughter to inspire us all to enjoy deep connection with our own spiritual connection. – Linda Vettrus-Nichols 20x Author, Book in 30 days Coach, www.LindaVettrus-Nichols.com The King lives on through his books! A mesmerizing story of a father-daughter bond that keeps the reader engaged from beginning to end. I would highly recommend reading this book to gain a deeper understanding of the Universe and how we are all connected to each other. It is through this connection, that we are able to foster love and acceptance for ourselves, and others, which helps us to learn and grow. The author shares personal stories, lessons and experiences that inspire, influence, and positively impact the reader. A journey of discovery worth exploring! – Jennifer Beitz Life coach and founder of Jen-U-ine conversations at www.JenuineLifeCoach.com
Download or read book The Grass Ceiling written by Sarah Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BPSC Solved Papers Pre Examination 2020 written by Arihant Experts and published by Arihant Publications India limited. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bihar Public Services Commission (BPSC) conducts the recruitment exams to fill up the vacancies in the state administration posts (Group A, B & C). The BPSC Combined Competitive Preliminary exam. This present book “BPSC Combined Competitive Preliminary Exam” is the collection of the Solved Papers that has been prepared for the students who are going to appear in the preliminary exam of Bihar Civil Services. It provides Previous Years’ Question Papers from 1992 to 2019 for the complete preparation of the exam. Besides, it not just provides the answer keys but complete detailed solutions to each and every question that helps candidates to understand the concepts of various topics. This book is allows to educate the entire syllabus through their various types of question that are being designed as per the latest pattern of the exam that helps in the self-evaluation by clearing all kinds of doubts & fears regarding paper that boosts enough confidence to face the exam. TABLE OF CONTENTS 65th BPSC Pre. Exam 2019, 64th BPSC Pre. Exam 16-12-2018, 63rd BPSC Pre. Exam 01-07-2018, 60th-62nd BPSC Pre. Exam 12-02-2017, 56th-59th BPSC Pre. Exam 15-03-2015, 53rd-55th BPSC Pre. Exam 2011, 48th-52nd BPSC Pre. Exam 2008, 47th BPSC Pre. Exam 2005, 46th BPSC Pre. Exam 2004, 45th BPSC Pre. Exam 2002, 44th BPSC Pre. Exam 2001, 43th BPSC Pre. Exam 1999, 42nd BPSC Pre. Exam 1998, 41st BPSC Pre. Exam 1996, 40th BPSC Pre. Exam 1995, 39th BPSC Pre. Exam 1994, 38th BPSC Pre. Exam 1992.
