Terry swimming during a film shoot for a T.I. instructional video a few years ago
A few words about the inspiration for Terry Laughlin’s forthcoming final book: Total Immersion: Swimming That Changes Your Life (tentatively expected for publication in late …
Terry leaps off a cliff in Eleuthera, the Bahamas, December 2006 (photo: Dennis O’Clair)
Continuing with the theme of goal-setting, which we explored in last week’s post– “Strategies for Achieving Your Breakthrough Season: Success is Not the Result …
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
– Anonymous
The above quote was one of Terry’s favorite epigrams in his latter years. Its message so resonated with his …
This week we revisit one of our most popular blog posts from 2016– a post from Terry on the metacognitive aspects of skill acquisition (i.e. “learning how we learn”) and how that relates to Total Immersion’s mindful, kaizen approach to …
I’ve written many times that among the characteristics of those who excel in many fields is they do not fear or shrink from failure. In fact, when they practice their discipline, they almost always plan it to include a form …
The liveliest thread on the TI Discussion Forum at the moment is titled ‘a question about continuance.’ with, as of this morning, 59 posts, which have drawn over 1300 views. What’s curious about this thread is that the initial …
Tim Ferriss has gained worldwide renown as an expert on how to master a variety of skills very quickly, by finding shortcuts and avoiding what he calls ‘failure points’ that hamstring the average person. In his first book, The Four …