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No more Mister Nice Guy! Stu Walker's long-awaited tenth book is filled with surprises. Using anecdotes from golf, tennis, football, sailing, running and many other sports, Walker shows how competitors are impelled by their genes to follow an altruistic Code of Competition. Yet they must find the courage to violate this Code to achieve their egoistic purposes. He demonstrates that success in competition comes most importantly from resisting the Code. Competitors must resist the Code that creates "pressure," "pecking orders," "blowing it," resentment and guilt, and they must resist the Code's assumptions that outcomes should be based on deservedness and that victory and hubris require atonement.
Stu Walker can rightly claim a lifetime of successful sailboat racing. He has competed in the Olympics and won many championships in sailing. In addition to a full medical career as a pediatrician, he is a prolific sailing writer. His detailed analytic writing is legendary and has been required reading for serious sailors.
"This breakthrough book is filled with illustrative anecdotes that expose the barriers to athletic success that result from man's altruistic endowment. I can vouch for Walker's insightful comments regarding the behavior of quarterbacks and the willingness of competitors to accept being beaten, to be embarrassed by winning and to settle for the same old finish in game after game. A must read for the competitor who wonders why he is losing and would like to stop doing so." — Roger Staubach
"I have raced against Stu Walker for more than half a century. He is the most dedicated, analytical, insightful, opinionated sailor in captivity. He is a true friend and a great ambassador for sport." — Paul Henderson
"Competitors in any sport, at any level, will find their own victory in this book." — Pam Shriver, Baltimore tennis player, sports broadcaster
Hardcover.
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