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  • Published: 17 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9781847943705
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $30.00

High Performance

Lessons from the Best on Becoming Your Best





How high achievers unlocked their potential. And how you can too.

The phenomenal Sunday Times bestseller

'Massively motivating' Fearne Cotton
'A wealth of wisdom' Vex King
'Read this book' Ant Middleton

High performance isn't born. It's made.

This book uncovers the eight essential habits of the world's leading sportspeople, coaches and entrepreneurs.

From taking responsibility for your situation to finding your 'Trademark Behaviours', it reveals how the world's highest-achieving people unlocked their potential - and how you can too. Anyone can learn the secrets of high performance.

'Full of valuable principles with real-world relevance to people's everyday lives' Toto Wolff

'So many different lessons from so many remarkable people' Adam Peaty

  • Published: 17 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9781847943705
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $30.00

About the authors

Jake Humphrey

Jake Humphrey is one of the UK's best-loved sports presenters. Currently the lead Premier League football presenter on BT Sport, Jake previously spent over a decade at the BBC - covering Formula 1, the FIFA World Cup, the London Olympics and BBC Sports Personality of the Year, as well as becoming the youngest ever presenter of Match of the Day.

Damian Hughes

Damian Hughes is a sports psychologist and visiting professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. An expert on high-performance sporting cultures, Damian's research has been praised by the likes of Sir Richard Branson, Muhammad Ali, Sir Roger Bannister, Tiger Woods, Jonny Wilkinson and Sir Alex Ferguson.