5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Sport and performance psychologist whose work applies psychological research to elite athletic and professional performance — appearing in MW discussions of mental skills and high performance.
American scholar who worked at the intersection of Jungian psychology and performance — exploring the psychological dimensions of voice and dramatic interpretation — associated with the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago.
American singer-songwriter who began as a Brill Building staff writer and became one of the best-selling solo artists in music history — and whose Rick Rubin-produced 12 Songs (2005) stripped away decades of orchestration to reveal the essential quality of his songwriting.
W. Timothy Gallwey's 1974 argument that the opponent within oneself — the internal critic (Self 1) — is more significant than the external opponent, and that performance improves when you silence Self 1 and let the body's natural intelligence (Self 2) operate.
American playwright and composer who created Hamilton — the hip-hop musical that transformed Broadway, made the Founding Fathers into pop culture, and became the most culturally significant American musical since West Side Story.