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Performing at the Top of Your Game

Author : Shirley Stratton Dorritie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578810874
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Performing at the Top of Your Game written by Shirley Stratton Dorritie and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to get better results from your hard work so you can perform at the top of your game when it really counts? Have you developed the technical skills to perform at your best, but still feel something getting in your way? Do you prepare, prepare, prepare, and then freeze-or over-exert and blow up-when it comes time to "deliver the goods"?Are self-criticism, worry, anxiety, and stage fright running your show? Whatever your endeavor-be it in the arts, sport, work, recreation, academics, relationships, parenting, or any skill you want to achieve-PERFORMING AT THE TOP OF YOUR GAME will help you maximize your strengths and increase your adaptability, resiliency, control, and confidence. If you are looking to improve your own performance, this is the book for you. If you are a teacher, coach, director, manager, or supervisor looking to improve your group's performance, this is the book for you. Drawing upon decades of expertise in both the performing arts and counseling psychology, author Shirley Stratton Dorritie distills a unique mix of strengths-based, brain and body-oriented approaches into practical strategies for achieving consistent, reliable performance--regardless of the conditions. Combining user-friendly theory with experiential practices, this book will help you to:* Understand the key experiences and obstacles that all performers encounter-regardless of their endeavor.* Discover what happens in your body and brain when you are under the pressure of performance.* Uncover the unique performance challenges you face.* Train your nervous system to react appropriately to those challenges.* Strengthen the memories, beliefs, and reactions that get the results you want and deactivate those that get in your way.* Specifically pinpoint not only WHAT you want to do, but WHY and HOW you want to do it.* Master the eight essential skills for performing at the top of your game when it really counts!

Top of Your Game

Author : Ronnie O'Sullivan
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788701186
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Top of Your Game written by Ronnie O'Sullivan and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You might be wondering what Ronnie O'Sullivan is doing writing a book like this. What do I know about eating healthy, right? I'm a champion snooker player, not a personal trainer or a chef and although I've always loved running, I've come to realise that any success in sport is directly related to my attitude towards food as well as fitness. Snooker is all about sharpness, focus, and concentration - how can I do any of those things if I'm not eating well and treating my body right? My game is only as good as I am, so making that link between my mental and brain health and my physical fitness was a lightbulb moment for me and I hope this book will be a wake-up call for you too. We hear lots about mindfulness and self-care these days, but really good physical health starts with the best computer any of us could ever hope for - our noggin (aka our brains!). Written with top celebrity nutritionist Rhiannon Lambert, Top of Your Game is about showing you how to eat, think, and work your way to being your very best - and staying there.

On Top of Your Game

Author : Carrie Cheadle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989691604
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book On Top of Your Game written by Carrie Cheadle and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references.

Raise Your Game

Author : Alan Stein Jr.
Publisher : Center Street
ISBN 13 : 1546082875
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Raise Your Game written by Alan Stein Jr. and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance coach Alan Stein Jr. shares the secret principles used by world-class performers that will help you improve your productivity and achieve higher levels of success. High achievers are at the top of their game because of the discipline they have during the unseen hours. They have made a commitment to establish, tweak, and repeat positive habits in everything they do. Raise Your Game examines the top leaders in sports and business and proves that success is a result of the little things we do all the time. The basic principles provided in Raise Your Game are simple, but not easy. We live in an instantly downloadable world that encourages us to skip steps. We are taught to chase what's hot, flashy and sexy and ignore what's basic. But the basics work. They always have and they always will. Raise Your Game will inspire and empower you to commit to the fundamentals, create a winning mindset, and progress into new levels of success.

How to Play the Game at the Top

Author : Fenorris Pearson
Publisher : Agate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1572846631
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book How to Play the Game at the Top written by Fenorris Pearson and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before starting his own successful company, Fenorris Pearson was a top executive with Dell and Motorola with responsibilities in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. He worked with top people on top teams building and selling top products to global audiences. Smart people like to work with smart people and when cutting-edge technology, big-name corporate players, major new product launches, and billions of dollars are on the line, there is no room for sleepwalkers, jokers, or phoning it in. Top performers get to the top by bringing their A-game every day. But now even that isn’t enough. You have to come fully prepared to work at the top of your game, every day. Pearson reveals how to do just that, opening up the corporate play book and providing a glimpse into the inner workings of the men and women driving American business today: the consummate corporate executives.

Lead at the Top of Your Game

Author : Karan Ferrell-Rhodes
Publisher : Mountain Arbor Press
ISBN 13 : 9781631839108
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Lead at the Top of Your Game written by Karan Ferrell-Rhodes and published by Mountain Arbor Press. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very few individuals or companies are perceived as being global leaders in their game. As a veteran leadership and organizational development executive of numerous Fortune 100 corporations, Karan Ferrell-Rhodes researched over 10,000 global high-potential leaders, to pinpoint how they rose to the top of their game in their profession or industry. After evaluating how these stars overcame inhibitors to reach the pinnacle of success that only 5% of the population achieves, her discovery was this simple yet powerful idea: Leaders become elite by providing differentiating value to an urgent, unmet need. In Lead at the Top of Your Game, Karan provides a blueprint how, you too, can be successful in carving out a niche to lead in your own game of choice, no matter if you are: ?An entrepreneur looking to catapult your business in a way that draws more raving fans?A high potential individual chartering your professional trajectory?A manager looking to invigorate your directs into an even higher performing team?A leader accountable for long-term sustainability in a hyper-competitive industry. In order to influence others in a way which compels them to follow your lead, she shows why it is critical to master: 1. Disrupting the game, by transforming your key strengths into key differentiators. 2. Owning the game, by honing your craft and showcasing the 7 Leadership Tactics That Drive Differentiating Value: Intellectual Horsepower, Courageous Agility, Strategic Decision, Intrapreneurship, Drive for Results, Executive Presence, Stakeholder Savvy. 3. Branding the game, by successfully associating your name, product, or service with your profession or industry. We are living in an era where even the most ambitious and rewarding work must fight for the attention of those it can serve the most. If you desire to learn how to lead at the top of your game in order to become successful in unexpected ways, realize the impact you want to make in the world and attract a legend of raving fans in the process . . . then this book is for you!

Top of Your Game

Author : Jonathan Albin
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304931056
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Top of Your Game written by Jonathan Albin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the Game Changer Challenge series by Jonathan Albin, the 'Game Market Guru' shares insight and technique to help game players, and people in general, achieve better results in everything they attempt to accomplish.

Up Your Game

Author : David Bradford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937458744
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Up Your Game written by David Bradford and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bradford, CEO of two of the country's top 50 tech companies, shares with you his six "UP Principles" as he discusses how important networking is to your success or business.

Rules of Play

Author : Katie Salen Tekinbas
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262240451
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Rules of Play written by Katie Salen Tekinbas and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-09-25 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understanding them to date. As pop culture, games are as important as film or television—but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field. They offer a unified model for looking at all kinds of games, from board games and sports to computer and video games. As active participants in game culture, the authors have written Rules of Play as a catalyst for innovation, filled with new concepts, strategies, and methodologies for creating and understanding games. Building an aesthetics of interactive systems, Salen and Zimmerman define core concepts like "play," "design," and "interactivity." They look at games through a series of eighteen "game design schemas," or conceptual frameworks, including games as systems of emergence and information, as contexts for social play, as a storytelling medium, and as sites of cultural resistance. Written for game scholars, game developers, and interactive designers, Rules of Play is a textbook, reference book, and theoretical guide. It is the first comprehensive attempt to establish a solid theoretical framework for the emerging discipline of game design.

Changing the Game

Author : John O'Sullivan
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614486468
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Changing the Game written by John O'Sullivan and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern day youth sports environment has taken the enjoyment out of athletics for our children. Currently, 70% of kids drop out of organized sports by the age of 13, which has given rise to a generation of overweight, unhealthy young adults. There is a solution. John O’Sullivan shares the secrets of the coaches and parents who have not only raised elite athletes, but have done so by creating an environment that promotes positive core values and teaches life lessons instead of focusing on wins and losses, scholarships, and professional aspirations. Changing the Game gives adults a new paradigm and a game plan for raising happy, high performing children, and provides a national call to action to return youth sports to our kids.

Raising Your Game

Author : Ethan J. Skolnick and Dr. Andrea Corn
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475960875
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Raising Your Game written by Ethan J. Skolnick and Dr. Andrea Corn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's children are joining and quitting youth sports in record numbers. If kids can't find the fun in an activity, they may try to find the way out. If an adult can't find the right tools, they may not know the right words to say or the right actions to take. In Raising Your Game, authors Ethan J. Skolnick and Dr. Andrea Corn present a guide adults can use to ensure the most enjoyable and enriching youth sports experience for a child. Through a combination of advice from more than 100 elite athletes and time-tested sports psychology concepts, Raising Your Game prompts parents to consider what really matters when it comes to their kids and sports. From LeBron James to Shannon Miller, Brandi Chastain to Jason Taylor, John Smoltz to Mary Joe Fernandez, Sanya Richards-Ross to Torii Hunter, athletes from across the sports spectrum discuss their setbacks and successes what worked for them and what didn't. Raising Your Game discusses the types of guidance that can ignite inspiration and foster participation, practice, and progress, and which methods can create frustration and dejection. It shows the difference a supportive parent can make by showing up, showing interest and, at times, showing restraint.

The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz

Author : W. C. Heinz
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 159853419X
Total Pages : 787 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz written by W. C. Heinz and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Littlefield (NPR's Only a Game) presents the second installment in the Library of America series devoted to classic American sportswriters, a defintive collector’s edition of the pathbreaking writer who invented the long-form sports story. Like his friend and admirer Red Smith, W. C. Heinz (1915–2008) was one of the most distinctive and influential sportswriters of the last century. Though he began his career as a newspaper reporter, Heinz soon moved beyond the confines of the daily column, turning freelance and becoming the first sportwriter to make his living writing for magazines. In doing so he effectively invented the long-form sports story, perfecting a style that paved the way for the New Journalism of the 1960s. His profiles of the top athletes of his day still feel remarkably current, written with a freshness of perception, a gift for characterization, and a finely tuned ear for dialogue. Jimmy Breslin named Heinz’s “Brownsville Bum”—a brief life of Al “Bummy” Davis, Brooklyn street tough and onetime welterweight champion of the world—“the greatest magazine sports story I’ve ever read, bar none.” His spare and powerful 1949 column, “Death of a Race Horse,” has been called a literary classic, a work of clarity and precision comparable to Hemingway at his best. Now, for this essential writer’s centennial, Bill Littlefield, the host of NPR’s Only A Game, presents the essential Heinz: thirty-eight columns, profiles, and memoirs from the author’s personal archive, including eighteen pieces never collected during his lifetime. Though Heinz’s great passion was boxing—the golden era of Rocky Graziano, Floyd Patterson, and Sugar Ray Robinson—his interests extended to the wide world of sports, with indelible profiles of baseball players (Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio), jockeys (George Woolf, Eddie Arcaro), hockey players, football coaches, scouts and trainers and rodeo riders.

Level Up Your Life

Author : Steve Kamb
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1623365414
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Level Up Your Life written by Steve Kamb and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 5 years, Steve Kamb has transformed himself from wanna-be daydreamer into a real-life superhero and actually turned his life into a gigantic video game: flying stunt planes in New Zealand, gambling in a tuxedo at the Casino de Monte-Carlo, and even finding Nemo on the Great Barrier Reef. To help him accomplish all of these goals, he built a system that allowed him to complete quests, take on boss battles, earn experience points, and literally level up his life. If you have always dreamed of adventure and growth but can’t seem to leave your hobbit-hole, Level Up Your Life is for you. Kamb will teach you exactly how to use your favorite video games, books, and movies as inspiration for adventure rather than an escape from the grind of everyday life. Hundreds of thousands of everyday Joes and Jills have joined Steve’s Rebellion through his popular website, NerdFitness.com, and leveled up their lives—losing weight, getting stronger, and living better. In Level Up Your Life, you’ll meet more than a dozen of these members of The Rebellion: men and women, young and old, single and married, from all walks of life who have created superhero versions of themselves to live adventurously and happily. Within this guide, you’ll follow in their footsteps and learn exactly how to: • Create your own “Alter Ego” with real-life super powers • Build your own Epic Quest List, broken into categories and difficulty levels • Hack your productivity habits to start making progress • Train your body for any adventure • Build in rewards and accountability that will actually motivate you to succeed • Travel the world freely (and cheaply) • Recruit the right allies to your side and find powerful mentors for guidance Adventure is out there, and the world needs more heroes. Will you heed the call?

The Peak Performance Formula

Author : Bob Lesser
Publisher : The Collective Book Studio
ISBN 13 : 1951412257
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Peak Performance Formula written by Bob Lesser and published by The Collective Book Studio. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you believe you have barely tapped your potential career? Do you know that you could change your business, your industry, and the lives of those around you if you just got the chance? It's time to make your own chances with The Peak Performance Formula. As a Bay Area resident and longtime Silicon Valley executive coach, Bob Lesser knows the stresses of career development firsthand. His advice, research, and 30 Day Peak Performance Challenge draw from his own experiences and research, yet can be applied much further than just the workplace. Whether you are a struggling athlete or a high powered executive, The Peak Performance Formula will guide you to become your best and not settle for mediocrity. In this actionable guide to achieving one's peak performance, Lesser shares his analysis of the three pillars of success: purpose, values, and vision. He incorporates case studies from real-life peak performers: people and organizations that are the best and the brightest. Bob will help you examine these questions in detail, so you can find the answers that are waiting within you: What exactly is purpose and how can you pinpoint yours? How can values improve your fulfillment and performance? How can you utilize vision to ensure you're getting where you want to go, regardless of your chosen endeavor? Bob will show you how the most successful leaders are innovative and influential, and contextualizes his argument within neurological, psychological, and religious research so you can trust your instincts and have the relentless courage to succeed. Read about: Iron Man Dick Hoyt Musician G Love Activist Suraya Sadeed Former Governor Michael Dukakis ...and many more real life peak performers! This simple-but-powerful equation - Purpose + Values + Vision = Peak Performance - will open the doors that have been closed to you until now. Readers of Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, Start With Why by Simon Sinek, The 10x Rule by Grant Cardone and Relentless by Tim S. Grover will love The Peak Performance Formula. TAKE IT FROM THOSE AT THE TOP: THIS REALLY WORKS! "We all need tools and tactics to achieve at the highest levels—both at work and in life. This book gives you the framework."—Eric Schmidt, Cofounder, Schmidt Futures, and Former CEO, Google "As a cofounder, leader, and CEO, I need to manage my time, relationships, energy, and company at the highest levels. The Peak Performance Formula will show you how." —Meirav Oren, Cofounder and CEO, Versatile "The principles in this book have made me a better leader and have helped us build one of the most valuable new companies in our industry." — Bradley Rothenberg, CEO, nTopology "Purpose and values guide everything we do as an organization. This book shows you how to use these powerful tools in your own work." —Charles Best, Founder and CEO, DonorsChoose

Work On Your Game: Use the Pro Athlete Mindset to Dominate Your Game in Business, Sports, and Life

Author : Dre Baldwin
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 1260121399
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Work On Your Game: Use the Pro Athlete Mindset to Dominate Your Game in Business, Sports, and Life written by Dre Baldwin and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your game plan for career success—from International Basketball Pro Dre BaldwinNo one knows how to turn unrelenting self-belief into hard-and-fast career results better than Dre Baldwin. When everyone and everything was telling him to give up on his goal of playing pro basketball, he got focused on his future, and met the challenge head on. In the end, Baldwin succeeded—making a living playing basketball in leagues around the world—and in these pages, he shares all his secrets.Whether you’re just starting out in business or looking to take your career to the next level, Work On Your Game provides the strategy you need to succeed from the inside-out. Dre Baldwin, or “DreAllDay,” as his fans know him, delivers an easy-to-understand four-part model for achieving any goal. It’s based on discipline, confidence, mental toughness, and personal initiative—and it’s proven effective. Baldwin takes you through the steps of identifying what’s expected of you, preparing for what's coming, and conditioning your body and mind for the competitive world of business—and everything is a business.Baldwin’s personal story of beating the odds is both inspiring and instructional. You’ll learn how to play the mental game in a way that launches you towards unparalleled achievement.

The Infinite Game

Author : Simon Sinek
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735213526
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Infinite Game written by Simon Sinek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today’s ever-changing world. How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules of an infinite game are changeable while infinite games have no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers—only ahead and behind. The question is, how do we play to succeed in the game we’re in? In this revelatory new book, Simon Sinek offers a framework for leading with an infinite mindset. On one hand, none of us can resist the fleeting thrills of a promotion earned or a tournament won, yet these rewards fade quickly. In pursuit of a Just Cause, we will commit to a vision of a future world so appealing that we will build it week after week, month after month, year after year. Although we do not know the exact form this world will take, working toward it gives our work and our life meaning. Leaders who embrace an infinite mindset build stronger, more innovative, more inspiring organizations. Ultimately, they are the ones who lead us into the future.

Seven Games: A Human History

Author : Oliver Roeder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324003782
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Seven Games: A Human History written by Oliver Roeder and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against “modern rationalism”; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games—and for us. Funny, fascinating, and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human.