Victoria Pendleton

Increase your confidence, feel less anxious and get more out of life by taking small steps outside your comfort zone. Packed with examples and clear takeaways, The Fear Opportunity is a life-affirming toolkit for positively channeling fear, using it to discover everything you're capable of, and understand what matters to you most.

In The Fear Opportunity, Olympic Gold medallist Victoria Pendleton shows just how much you stand to gain by reframing your relationship with fear. This clear and practical book sets out how doing small, everyday things that scare you is the key to building self-confidence, handling anxiety, and coping when life gets bumpy.

The theory is one that drove Victoria to the heights of sporting success, winning multiple medals for cycling across her career. Since retiring, she's taken on huge challenges, from learning to be a jump jockey despite having barely ridden a horse, to attempting to climb Everest.

But Victoria - alongside the neuroscientists, researchers and psychologists she interviews - is clear that the lessons she's learned from her extreme experiences can be easily applied to your everyday life.

In The Fear Opportunity you'll learn the importance of the stories we tell ourselves and the powerful impact of changing them. Plus, Victoria examines five common major fears and unpacks how altering the way you see them can transform your life:

Author Biography: Victoria Pendleton is one of Britain's most successful track cyclists, a double Olympic champion and a nine-times world champion. After she retired from cycling she became a jockey for the thrill of the chase, set out to climb Everest and traversed a high-wire over the London Olymphttps://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/admin/pages/7351/unpublish/ic Stadium. She is the author of The Fear Opportunity.