The Win Within: Capturing Your Victorious Spirit

An inspiring guide to playing your personal best in the sport of life

As an orthopedic surgeon, a finish-line physician, and a USA team doctor at the World Cup and the Olympics, Dr. Bert Mandelbaum has witnessed the trials and triumphs of elite athletes from a vantage point few of us get. And over his twenty-plus years of experience, he's identified a common character trait that every elite athlete relies upon for success: it's what he calls the ''victorious spirit.''

In The Win Within, Mandelbaum reveals that any of us--no matter our age or physical condition--can capture that same spirit in our own lives. This inner drive to win resides in all of us, he argues, hardwired into our DNA by ancestry dating back millions of years. You'll learn how to view life the way a top-performing athlete does: relentlessly, tenaciously, positively, and focusing less on the finish line of the marathon and more on the 26.2 miles that precede it.

With narrative support ranging from the lessons of our early ancestors to Mandelbaum's stories of our modern-day gladiators (both household name and lesser known), The Win Within will give you a greater understanding of how and why we're all hardwired to win--and you'll come away with no shortage of tactics and motivation to capture your own victorious spirit.

Dr. Bert Mandelbaum is among the world's foremost experts in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of orthopedic conditions. He spends most of his time at his clinical practice, Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Group.

Dr. Mandelbaum has served as team physician for numerous collegiate and Major League Soccer teams, as well as the US Soccer Men's National Team. He currently serves as the Medical Director for the FIFA Medical Center of Excellence in Santa Monica, the Director of Research for Major League Baseball, and also serves on the USOC National Medical Network Advisory Group. Most recently, Mandelbaum was appointed as Chief Medical Officer for the 2015 World Special Olympic Games.

He has been married to his wife, Ruth, a family physician, for more than twenty years. The couple has three children: Rachel, Jordan and Ava.