Taming tigers (dedikált példány) [antikvár]

Foreword Taming Tigers is an important book. Life is for living - and living w^ell. Taming Tigers is all about setting ourselves free to do just that - at work or at home. Taming Tigers is the antidote to self-help. For one thing, the approach is completely practical. If you follow the Ten Rules you'll find very few 'short cuts' but a lot of excitement and challenge and opportunities to surprise yourself. But also Jim lives the philosophy. He doesn't just talk about it. I rode nearly 2,000 winners during my career, including success in two Grand Nationals and a Cheltenham Gold Cup. I still hold the record for the number of racecourse falls - six hundred and seventy-two! Eveiy day I rode there were Tigers to be tamed but nothing compared with the Tigers that attacked when I was told by an American kinesiologist, out of the blue, that my career was over. After seventeen years working on a racetrack, I was immediately running a business - sat in an office for twelve hours a day. That was a far bigger personal challenge than riding Desert Orchid around any racecourse. Facing change, whether we choose it or it chooses us, is a huge test but also a huge opportunity. And the battle is won or lost in our heads. This book unravels that battle. Racehorses are a handful. And the few people who make it to ride in public on a racecourse have generally worked for many years with easier animals before they take a racehorse on. Their