I love being able to talk about this book today because on Monday Hugo presented it at Casa del Libro and it was a huge success. He’s young and has a large following on social media, but that’s because he has built his platform from his talent, his skills, and his ability to speak clearly about what he knows.
The greatest strength of his book, La Mentalidad de los Campeones (The Champion’s Mindset), is that it goes beyond sports anecdotes. It doesn’t matter whether your goal is to publish a novel, lead a project, or simply dare to start something new. The lessons in these pages work like a practical compass: learning to live with pressure, accepting failure as part of the process, and training consistency as if it were just another muscle. Mindset is something you build, and this book shows you how.
What happens before someone lifts a trophy? What goes on in the mind of someone who refuses to give up when everything points to failure? The Champion’s Mindset doesn’t stay in the snapshot of the podium; it moves into the invisible ground where victories are forged. This book is not just about winning, it’s about thinking like someone who has already decided to endure.
Hugo Riera dismantles the romantic idea of innate talent and focuses on what truly makes the difference: the way top athletes manage pressure, interpret mistakes, and turn defeat into fuel. Through real stories of figures like Michael Jordan, Simone Biles, Carolina Marín, and Armand Duplantis, the author shows that excellence is not born in applause, but in silent repetition, daily discipline, and the ability to hold uncertainty.
Here, we see how they think long before they win. How they train their minds when no one is watching. How they get back up after an injury, a public mistake, or a lost final. A champion’s mindset is built day by day, a repeated decision to keep going when it would be easier to quit. And that, far from being exclusive to elite sports, is deeply human.
The author, who graduated in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication from the Blanquerna Faculty at Universitat Ramon Llull, is a sports journalist, audiovisual producer, and the creator of the Hache Sports channel, with more than 1.4 million followers and hundreds of millions of views. His experience telling stories of perseverance is evident in every chapter: the analysis is rigorous, but the reading is engaging and accessible.
If you’re looking for a book that reminds you that success is not a stroke of luck but a mental architecture, The Champion’s Mindset is already available in bookstores. A read that doesn’t promise shortcuts, but clarity, focus, and a different way of facing your own challenges. You may not come away with a medal, but you will gain something more decisive: a new way of thinking about your next goals.
