Be Your Own Hero & Win (eBook)

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Simone Janson (Autor)

Simone Janson (Herausgeber)

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2025 | 1. Auflage
C, 180 Seiten
Best of HR – Berufebilder.de® (Verlag)
978-3-96596-393-1 (ISBN)

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Also in the 8th revised and improved edition, published by a government-funded publisher involved in EU programs and a partner of the Federal Ministry of Education, you receive the concentrated expertise of renowned experts (overview in the book preview), embedded in an integrated knowledge system with premium content and 75% advantage. At the same time, you do good and support sustainable projects.
Because in our society many people look to heroes, the recent crises have clearly shown. But it is better to find the hero or heroine in ourselves. Unfortunately, many people lack the belief in themselves, in their own strengths potentials & abilities. Basically, if you are brave and heroic, you will achieve what you dream of. And this applies equally to all aspects of life from financial to emotional. Because success is defined differently for everyone. But often existing patterns and learned behaviors prevent us from becoming the hero of our lives. Often we lack self-confidence, self-love or even material security. But everyone can manage to achieve even ambitious goals with courage, energy and authentic self-confidence. This book wants to give courage and show that it is worthwhile to follow your own visions in life. Good luck and have fun reading.
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Publisher and editor Simone Janson is also a best-selling author, was a columnist for WELT and Wirtschaftswoche, and, according to ZEIT, one of Germany's most bloggers on success - find out more about her on Wikipedia.

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Success Talent Potential: The hour of the winner
// By David Epstein

How do extraordinary achievements arise? And what skills are real winners and winners? Sport is a good example.

Is the ability to conquer innate?

I got the chance to compete against Kenyans in college and wondered if stamina genes had made the trip from East Africa. At the same time, I noticed that five teammates who trained with one another day by day, step by step, nonetheless developed into five completely different runners. How could that be?

After finishing my college runner career, I studied science and later wrote for Sports Illustrated. A research took me beyond the equator and the Arctic Circle and brought me into contact with world and Olympic champions, but also with animals and people whose rare gene mutations or extraordinary physical properties have a drastic influence on physical performance. Along the way, I learned that traits such as training motivation, which I took to be a matter of will, are actually genetically determined to a large extent, while other supposedly innate traits such as a baseball or cricket batsman's lightning-fast reactions may not be hereditary at all .

How to explain ability without genes

Let's start with an example right away. The American League team was far behind, and batsman Mike Piazza was just starting for the NationalLeague team. So the secret weapon was brought into the field. Jennie Finch strolled past a phalanx of the world's best batter onto the sunlit infield. Her flax-colored hair shone in the clear desert light. For twenty-four years, the Pepsi All-Star softball game had been attended only by major league baseball players. The crowd was buzzing with excitement as the national softball team's 1,85-meter tall top pitcher reached pitcher hill and put her fingers around the ball.

It was a mild day in Cathedral City, California; The local replica of the Chicago Cubs' Wrigley Field, one of the American sports cathedrals, filled with 21 degrees warm air. The three-quarters of the original size replica resembled the original right down to the ivy-covered walls. Even the brick houses of the Chicago neighborhood were present there in the desert at the foot of the Santa Rosa Mountains, on almost life-size printed original photos. Finch, who was slated to win a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics in a few months, was originally invited only as a member of the American League coaching staff.

The baseball secret weapon

That changed when the American League stars fell 9-1 in the fifth inning. No sooner had Finch arrived on the mound than the defensive players made themselves comfortable behind her. Yankees infielder Aaron Boone took off his glove and lay down, using second base as a pillow. Texas Rangers' Hank Blalock took the opportunity for a sip of water. After all, they had seen Finch pitch during punch training.

As part of the pre-game celebrations, a number of major league stars had tested their skills against Finch's underhand grenades. Finch's throws come from a distance of 13 meters and reach speeds of approximately 110 km / h. The ball needs about the same time to home plate as a 150 km / h fastball from the regular pitcher hill 18 meters away. Such a fastball is quick, but also routine for professional baseball players. In addition, a softball is larger and should therefore be easier to hit.

People with unimagined abilities

Even so, Finch let the balls rush past the perplexed men with every windmill swing of her arm. When Albert Pujols, the greatest batter of a generation, met Finch during warm-up practice, the other star players crowded around him, gawking. Finch straightened her ponytail nervously. A big smile crossed her face. Joy flowed through her, but also the worry that Pujols might return her throw with a line drive. A silver chain dangled over his broad chest, and his forearms were as wide as the thug's head. "Well then," said Pujols quietly, signaling his readiness. Finch staggered back and then forward, lashing his limb in a wide arc. First she fired a high pitch. At the sight, Pujols staggered back in shock. Finch giggled.

She followed up with another fastball, this time coming up and inside. Pujols spun defensively and turned his head away. Behind him his colleagues laughed out loud. Pujols stepped out of his position, collected himself, and took his place again. He shuffled his feet until he was secure and stared at Finch. The next pitch went off through the middle. Pujols whirled a mighty swing at him, but the ball sailed past the bat and the crowd cheered. The next throw was way out and Pujols let it fly by. With the next one Finch scored another strike, while Pujols only hit empty air. For the remaining pitch, Pujols moved all the way back into the batter's box and ducked low. Finch swung back, then forward, and fired. Pujols hit far off the mark. He turned away and went to his giggling comrades. Then he stopped, confused. Pujols turned back to Finch, took off his hat in front of her and continued on his way. "I never want to see anything like that again," he later vowed.

So the defenders behind Finch had good reasons to make themselves comfortable on the field as soon as they came on: they knew there would be no hits. And like in the warm up, Finch beat the two batter she was up against. Piazza swung past three dead straight throws. Brian Giles, a San Diego Padres outfielder, missed the third strike so badly that his swing drew him into a pirouette. Subsequently, Finch limited herself again to her role as an honorary coach. But this shouldn't be the last time she humbled Major Leaguer.

Better than the best

In 2004 and 2005, Finch appeared regularly on a baseball show on Fox television. In the Einspielern, she traveled to major league training camps and made the best baseball players in the world look like bungles. "The girls hit balls like that?" Said Mike Cameron, Seattle Mariners outfielder, after missing a pitch by a hand's breadth. After seeing Barry Bonds Finch playing the Major League All-Star game, seven-time best player, he pushed his way through the reporters to engage them in trash talk.

“So, Barry, when do I get up to the best?” Finch asked. "Whenever you want," Bonds replied confidently. “You messed with all the dwarfs… Now you have to face the best. You look good and you can do it, you can't turn away a man who looks good and who can do it, ”Bonds said, hitting her on and intimidating her at the same time. Then he advised her to bring a protective net with her if she dared to approach him, because "you will need that ... I will meet you". "Only one person has ever got my ball," Finch replied. "Get range?" Asked Bonds with a laugh. “If the ball comes over the plate, I'll come over, believe that. Then I'll answer it, but how. ”“ My people will get in touch with your people and we'll fix something, ”Finch said. “Oh, that's already agreed! Just give me a call, girl, ”Bonds said. “I like to take challenges personally ... We broadcast the whole thing on national television. I want the world to see that everyone sees it. "

Girls balls only?

So Finch went to meet Bonds - this time without fans and reporters - and his mocking tone quickly faded. Bonds saw pitch after pitch whiz by and insisted the cameras not pick him up. Finch shot one pitch after the other past Bonds and his teammates present declared them all to be strikes. "It counts as a ball!" Bonds whined, to which one of his comrades replied, "Barry, there are twelve referees." Bonds let dozens of strikes go by without even swinging the club. It was only when Finch announced how she was going to throw the ball that he caught a ridiculous foul ball that rolled a few yards and stayed there.

Bonds pleaded with Finch, "Go on, throw another one." She did - and threw past him. When Finch subsequently met Alex Rodriguez, the reigning Player of the Season, Rodriguez looked over her shoulder as she warmed up with a catcher from his team. The catcher screwed up three of the first five throws. When Rodriguez saw this, to Finch's disappointment, he utterly refused to enter the batter's box. He leaned over to her and whispered to her: "I am not made a monkey."

The secret of success: The response time is not

For four decades, scientists have been trying to get an idea of ​​how top athletes can hit fast objects. An intuitive explanation would be that the Albert Pujolses and Roger Federers of the world are genetically gifted with faster reflexes and therefore have more time to respond to the ball. But that's not true.

If you test people for their "simple reaction time" - how quickly they can push a button in response to a light signal - most of them, whether they are teachers, lawyers or professional athletes, need around 200 milliseconds or a fifth of a second. One fifth of a second roughly corresponds to the minimum time it takes for information to travel from the retina on the back wall of the human eye via numerous synapses - the gaps between nerve cells that each take a few milliseconds to cross - to the primary visual cortex in the back of the brain and to be transmitted from the brain as a signal to the spinal cord, from where the muscles are set in motion. All of this happens as quickly as a blink of an eye. (In blinding light, it takes 150 milliseconds before the eyes are shut.)

But as fast as a reaction time of 200 milliseconds is, in view of 160 km / h throws and 200 km / h tennis serves it is far too slow. In the 75 milliseconds that the sensory cells in the retina need to perceive a baseball in their field of vision and to determine its trajectory and speed for transmission to the brain, a typical fastball in professional baseball covers around three...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.11.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebensdeutung
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Schlagworte: Appreciation • Courage • Hero • Perfectionism • Risk • Success
• ISBN-10: 3-96596-393-7 / 3965963937
• ISBN-13: 978-3-96596-393-1 / 9783965963931