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Ideas: Winning by Trance, Not Chance

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20010126
Author:Paul Steinberg

In his remarkable epilogue to "War and Peace," Leo Tolstoy pondered what allows certain armies to win battles and wars and what allows various peoples to make major migrations, from west to east or east to west, or in biblical terms from inside Egypt to an exodus outside of Egypt. Similarly, many of us have begun to wonder what allows some football teams to reach the Super Bowl while other equally talented teams, like the Washington Redskins, barely reach a .500 record.

At the time, Tolstoy was unaware of the power of the hypnotic trance in allowing people to reach stratospheric levels -- ...

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