When I contacted Olympic shooting champion Abhinav Bindra for his experience with neurofeedback (which his coach had recommended for enhanced focus and reduced stress) while training for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he asked me to read his autobiography. In Chapter 16, The Embrace Of Obsession, Bindra says that neurofeedback was a fantastic tool for him, especially when his form began to splutter. He says, “It was terrific at bringing back a shooter’s focus. But it’s best to train on it, learn, and then forget. In competition, you’re never going to be in complete control, suffering will never cease. Essentially, you have to call on courage because you are not a machine and you can’t behave like one. Or to put it another way, the machine will help you, it can’t do it for you."