Foreword by Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell WilsonFrom a top mental conditioning coach--"the world's best brain trainer" (Sports Illustrated)--who has transformed the lives and careers of elite athletes, business leaders, and military personnel, battle-tested strategies that will give you tools to manage and overcome negativity and achieve any goal.He knows how to win. More, he knows the many ways-subtle, brutal, oftenself-inflicted-we lose. As the most trusted mental coach in the world of sports, Trevor Moawad has worked with many of the most dominant athletes and thesavviest coaches. From Nick Saban and Kirby Smart to Russell Wilson, they alllook to Moawad for help finding or keeping or regaining their com-petitiveedge. (As do countless business leaders and members of special forces.) Now, at last, Moawad shares his unique philosophy with thegeneral public. He lays out lessons he's derived from his greatest careersuccesses as well as personal setbacks, the game-changing wisdom he's earned asthe go-to whisperer for elite performers on fields of play and among men andwomen headed to the battlefield. Moawad's motivational approach is elegant but refreshinglysimple: He replaces hardwired negativity, the kind of defeatist mindset that'snearly everybody's default, with what he calls "neutral thinking."His own special innovation, it's a nonjudg-mental, nonreactive way of coollyassessing problems and analyzing crises, a mode of attack that offers luminousclarity and su-preme calm in the critical moments before taking decisiveaction. Not only can neutral thinking raise your performancelevel-it can transform your overall life. And it all starts, Moawad says, withletting go. Past failures, past losses-let them go. "The past isn'tpredic-tive. If you can absorb and embrace that belief, everything changes.You'll instantly feel more calm. And the athlete-or employee or parent orspouse-who's more calm is also more aware, and more times than not ... willwin."