Champion Thinking

Simon Mundie is a popular commentator across the BBC, working as the sports presenter for Radio One for nine years as well as hosting the podcast 'Life Lessons' (previously called 'Don't Tell Me the Score'). Life Lessons has run for more than 130 episodes which have been downloaded 4 million times. The most popular episodes reach around 60,000-70,000 listeners and have featured guests including Jonny Wilkinson, Dame Kelly Holmes and Sir Alastair Cook - many of whom also feature in the book

Simon Mundie is a journalist, broadcaster and speaker who has interviewed hundreds of the world's top athletes, coaches, philosophers and thinkers for his critically acclaimed The Life Lessons podcast. He was the BBC Radio 1 sports presenter for 8 years, and now presents on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today Programme, and is a reporter for BBC TV. He lives in London.

This book captures the magic of being in flow, and Simon upgrades the usual message of what 'success' and happiness are really about. Highly recommended
Champion Thinking blends compelling sporting moments with thought-provoking philosophical insights. Mundie argues persuasively that sport isn't just about trophies and winning, and that similarly life isn't just about success and status. Entertaining and enlightening
This exquisite, erudite book distils the modern wisdom in Mundie's unmissable podcast. Business leaders, sports coaches, and indeed anyone with pretensions to being a champion - or just improving themselves - ought to read it, whether for entertainment or because it might change their life for the better. Mundie understands something most of us discover eventually: that the pursuit of sporting excellence is the best guide we have to what it means to be human
This book will challenge your thinking on what success truly is and will give you tools to "succeed" in life in the truest sense of the world. This is definitely not just another book about sport and those who happen to be good at it
Simon skilfully weaves the implications of the recognition of our true nature with compelling sporting anecdotes. The intention behind this book is beautiful, and I highly recommend it
Simon has truly explored something in this book that we all need to remember. Using high achieving individuals, teams and sporting stories he has looked into something we actually all know or at least once did and something that I champion personally. What is it? The ability to live life more in the now. As toddlers we were experts at being present. Read this book and become that expert again
An ingenious concept where sport meets psychology. And the best of the conversations are very good indeed
One of the BBC's best mental health podcasts - full of warmth and spice