McIntyre & Moore Booksellers
hosts
The Competitive Edge
How to Win Every Time You Compete
with Dr. Jeffrey Brown

Monday, October 22, 7:30-9:30 pm

“Jeff’s understanding of how people think and behave,
combined with his insight into competition in sport, business,
and life, will help you invest in something far greater than you could imagine.
We want you to have the competitive edge too.”
Curt Schilling, Boston Red Sox pitcher

(Somerville, MA) McIntyre & Moore Booksellers hosts “The Competitive Edge: How to Win Every Time You Compete” with Dr. Jeffrey Brown. On Monday, October 22, 7:30 pm at McIntyre & Moore Booksellers, 255 Elm St. in Davis Square, Somerville, near the Red Line. Wheelchair accessible. Free and open to all; followed by book signing. Light refreshments will be served. 15% book discount on store inventory for all those attending* [*discount available for day of event only]. For information call McIntyre & Moore Booksellers (617) 629-4840.

We’re all playing the game, and we all want to win. But can you still be a serious competitor if you value qualities like character and integrity? Even better, is it possible that these attributes can actually help you on the way to the top?

Dr. Jeffrey Brown, clinical and sport psychologist on faculty at Harvard Medical School, offers The Competitive Edge: How to Win Every Time You Compete (issued by Tyndale House Publishers, October 2007) at a time when: Major League Baseball’s new home run king Barry Bonds is accused of steroid use; the gold standard in the National Football League, the New England Patriots, stands accused of stealing signals of its opponents; and a Tour de France can’t be held without blood doping allegations.

In The Competitive Edge, Brown identifies seven crucial principles that can guide you to victory every time you compete. He’ll teach you to rethink what it means to be a winner. Brown’s principles include:
• Know the Rules of the Game
• Recognize the Right Decision and Make it
• Define Goals that Reflect Your Values
• Rethink Winning
• Know the Psychological Pitfalls of Competition
• Make Friends with Failure
• Use Time to Your Advantage

Is the sweet taste of victory worth it if it leaves a bitter aftertaste of guilt, shame, regret, or compromise? Dr. Brown shows how to become a legitimate winner every time you compete — regardless of whether you come out on top. Whether you compete against others in sports or business — or compete within yourself to achieve personal goals — the means by which you win tells the real story as to whether or not you are a champion. Dr. Brown, in The Competitive Edge, illustrates the challenges, risks, and rewards involved in doing what is right through examples from real life, biblical history, media, and popular culture.

Everyone wants to be a winner — but a true champion knows that success without character is no success at all. When all is said and done, your values and integrity should rise above the fading limelight, more highly valued than a tarnishing bronze trophy or a tattered blue ribbon. Jeffrey Brown’s The Competitive Edge will help you achieve true success.

Dr. Jeffrey Brown is an instructor in the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a clinical associate at historic McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA. Dr. Brown has been the psychologist for the Boston Marathon medical team since 2002 and is listed in the United States Olympic Committee Sport Psychology Registry, 2004-2008. A former collegiate baseball player himself, he is board-certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in clinical psychology and in cognitive and behavioral psychology. Dr. Brown maintains a private clinical and consulting practice in Arlington, MA. For more information, visit www.drjeffbrown.com.

 

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