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What Oliver Kahn has achieved is unique. In May, one of the best goalkeepers of all time ends his great career. His success - success at all - does not come by chance! No one knows this better than Oliver Kahn. Now he is intensively dealing with this topic. Success means triumph and recognition, but also setback and defeat. Using the example of many personal experiences and experiences, Oliver Kahn talks about the demands and strains, about set and achieved goals, about pressure from inside and outside. In this book he reveals his strategies on how he learned to deal with success in all its facets - including its dark sides - and remained true to himself. A personal balance: extremely instructive, extremely exciting, extremely honest!
Oliver Kahn: Ich. Success comes from within. 352 pages. German Language
Table of contents of the book:
- Prolog: From
- Introduction: What I would like to know myself.
- (The most important first) Knowing who: I.
- Knowing where to put targets.
- Knowing that: Motivation.
- Knowing why: Values.
- Knowing what: Skills and qualities.
- The knowledge of how: strong thinking, body language.
- The knowledge of how: preparation, perfection, discipline.
- The knowledge of who else: Environment. .
- The knowledge of how not: Failure.
- The knowledge of how not: Success.
- Epilogue: Start.
- Thank you. .
- The most important successes and awards.
- source directory.
Interview with Oliver Kahn about his book:
Mr. Kahn, what exactly is your new book about?
Oliver Kahn: My book is not a reference book about football, but a purely non-fiction book with an advisory character. I would like to share my success strategies with the readers and help them to apply them to their personal lives. Who promises itself revelations over my private life, is wrongly advised thereby. It is primarily about what I have done to be successful and how I have done it, what I have done wrong and what I have learned from it. Therefore, my book should not be confused with one of the usual guides. I try to let the readers profit from my experiences and to include them in my life and my views instead of forcing them to learn by heart. But surely one or the other anecdote from the history of football should not be missing.
What made you write this book and why now?
Oliver Kahn: After more than 20 years as a professional I will end my career this year in May. This is a drastic event. I take this "exit" as an occasion to look back on my professional career and my life and to review everything once again. I have experienced a lot in these 20 years of professional football, have learned to deal with successes and failures. Remember the most recent example: The decision for Lehmann at the World Cup. From such situations I can emerge strengthened today due to my experiences and my unbending will.
How do you deal with failures? Deal with it?
Oliver Kahn: I really learned my profession from very far down, actually from the very bottom. And although I possess a certain basic talent, I have the sport and above all "learn". In other words, it was more important to have weaknesses than talent. And more important than avoiding mistakes was making them. To learn, to become better, to develop strengths and to reduce weaknesses. And to grow with it.
Who is your book aimed at? Who do you want to address and reach with your book?
Oliver Kahn: It is aimed at all those who want to go up, set goals and grow beyond themselves. You don't have to play football to benefit from my book. I myself was considered an average talent in the beginning and still made it to the top. With an iron will you can achieve anything.
Have you written the book yourself?
Oliver Kahn: This book is 100 percent authentic.
Where did you write? Surely you are on the road most of the time, or?
Oliver Kahn: I type my thoughts and ideas into my computer anytime and anywhere - even at the most impossible moments. The laptop is always there and gives me the security not to forget anything.
How emotional was the process of writing?
Oliver Kahn: I relived many of the described scenes when I collected the thoughts for my book. This certainly had a purifying effect. By looking at decisive events of life once again and bringing them into written form, one learns to conclude with things in a positive sense. From such an argument with oneself one emerges strengthened and can face new challenges and set oneself further goals.
What was particularly important to you when writing your book? What message did you want to convey to the readers?
Oliver Kahn: I regard success as my field of expertise. That's why I present it the way I think it is right. My success strategies are therefore shown from a purely subjective point of view, i.e. in those aspects that I consider to be decisive, because I have experienced that they lead directly to success. My vita speaks for itself. It was also particularly important to me to illustrate complex facts using simple models. I wanted to prevent my success strategies from getting lost in any theoretical constructs. Above all, however, it was important to me that my book appealed to many people - from footballers to managers.
How and in what form does your current book differ from your first one?
Oliver Kahn: My first book is primarily about football and my many years of experience as a goalkeeper. Sport is therefore the main focus. Above all, however, my first book is not a non-fiction book and has no concrete instructions and advice ready like my current book. That is the decisive difference. And also the layout is completely different. My current book is a pure text book without illustrative and picture material, a pure non-fiction book just.
Allow it in the celebrity scene nowadays to be a book author?
Oliver Kahn: My book differs immensely from the usual unveiling stories of numerous celebrities. It is a non-fiction book from which the reader can draw a benefit for his own life. In other words, it offers real added value. My book does not aim at the pure satisfaction of the sensationalism of some readers. Here I go with you completely d'accord, we can do without such books also in the future.
In how far have you - also with regard to the media - left out private things?
Oliver Kahn: In my book I have deliberately left out provocations against other protagonists from the football guild as well as insights into my private life. Nevertheless, I have written a very personal book and give the readers insights into my inner attitudes to life, also about how I deal with fears and feelings. The one should not exclude the other. I have nothing to hide from the public. Rather, I want to protect my family or the people who are close to me.
What is your plan for the future? Are there any other book projects planned?
Oliver Kahn: I really enjoyed writing. So I could well imagine that this was not my last literary work. But there are no concrete plans at the moment. I want to get things moving for now and wait for the things to come.
Press comments
"Oliver Kahn gives deep insights into his successful thinking - original, worth reading, self-critical and with a dash of irony."
FOCUS
"The national goalkeeper Titan may be history. But the man Kahn is now legend!"
Alexander Beisse, Eurosport
"People celebrated Oliver Kahn enthusiastically, they didn't celebrate him for having decided a game, they celebrated him as a great athlete... as one who jumped over his shadow."
Michael Eder, FAZ
"Kahn writes about psychological crises and how he mastered them. Kahn writes about his outbursts and why they were right. Kahn writes how he became Kahn." "Everyone can learn something about success from this book. Really everyone.
Picture
"It's the work of a man who reaches for the stars"
Colored
"His new book proves it: He has what it takes to be a motivator to give lectures at management seminars. He stays in the game."
Paul Sahner, chief reporter of Bunte in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
"The book shows an authentic Oliver Kahn as we haven't seen him yet."
Marcel Schäfer, chief editor TORWART
