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This is a scan of the highly recommended book Red Gold by Grigori Raiport. This copy is a privilege for The Place members only, that means you. Realize that it is best to first read, learn and practice this material for yourself. Then guide your friends from what you have learned.How Do Soviet Athletes Get Their Edge?”Athletic competition,” according to U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist Bruce Jenner, “is 80 percent mental challenge and 20 percent physical.” And the same can be said of competition anywhere-from playing field to boardroom.  By concentrating on the mental aspects of peak performance, Soviet and Eastern-bloc athletes have scored a disproportionately large number of victories in international athletic competitions: in the 1988 Olympics, the Soviet-bloc athletes won 56 medals, the United States, 6. Until recently, the mental-training techniques behind these successes have been carefully guarded, but in Red Gold an insider, former Russian sports psychologist and Olympic trainer Dr. Grigorio Raiport, reveals the methods of the Soviet peak performance system.  In a series of tightly focused chapters and detailed exercises, Dr. Raiport takes the reader through a program encompassing the seven principal techniques that are the key to the Soviet mental training program:Conquering your resistance to changeTranscending your threshold of painMastering consciousness and attentionGaining self-controlAchieving a state of optimal functioningTapping your co-personalitiesIdentifying with your winning self  In Red Gold Dr. Raiport shos how the same principles and techniques can be used by anyone to give ourselves and our athletic or work team the benefits of this specialized training.  Grigori Raiport, M.D., Ph.D., conducts seminars in the Russian Success Method for corporations and individuals. He has written extensively about Russian and East German peak-performance training for The New York Times, Penthouse, and Muscle and Fitness, among others. Dr. Raiport received his medical degree from Rostov State Medical Institute and earned a Ph.D. from Moscow National Institute of Physical Culture and a Ph.D. from City University in New York.————————————–