I heard the Navy SEALs were using Lanny Bassham's work in their Sniper program to good effect.  As I teach riflery I thought it was worth read, so I got a copy of the "book": Freedom Flight - The Origins of Mental Power



It's a really short read.  Its more like 40 pages.

I liked several of the "lessons" including:

Focus only on the solution to the problem and not the problem itself... Solutions empower our thinking and energize us.  As a society we need to do this.

One must continually separate the important from the unimportant, thinking about and acting on the important while letting the unimportant go.  As a society we need to do this too.  Distraction is keeping us from important matters and finding solutions.  Like Lanny, I consider excellence at shooting an important matter.

I liked the visualization part, but I felt there wasn't quite enough detail on the visualization lesson.  The book made visualization of a perfect outcome sound more like a power of positive thinking than a technical process.  More detail would have helped there.

I'll have to read With Winning in Mind, which is longer and seems to have more detail.