It's a smooth read, there are plenty of footnotes, and there were a few moments when I was absorbed. Despite this, I didn't learn much. The essential problem regarding the attainment of excellence is that expert knowledge simply cannot be taught in the classroom over the course of a rainy afternoon, or indeed a thousand rainy afternoons”. Sentence-Summary: Bounce shows you that trainingtrumps talent every time, by explaining the science of deliberate practice, the mindset of high performers and how you can use those tools to become a master of whicheverskill you choose. Different things motivate different people, but the best part of it is – some of them are even trivial. For example, for Mia Hamm, that something was her coach telling her to “switch on.” For South Korean female golfers, it was Se-ri Pak winning the U.S. Open at the age of 20. Observers usually nominate two variables, exemplified by the following news excerpts about the 2012 Wimbledon final:

I really enjoyed Syed's description of the difference between a scientist and an athlete. A scientist always is in doubt with a sense of inner skepticism. However, a good athlete should not be in doubt; to an athlete, doubt is poison. The iceberg illusion: “When we witness extraordinary feats of memory (or of sporting or artistic prowess) we are witnessing the end product of a process measured in years. What is invisible to us – the submerged evidence, as it were – is the countless hours of practice that have gone into the making of the virtuoso performance: the relentless drills, the mastery of technique and form, the solitary concentration that have, literally, altered the anatomical and neurological structures of the master performer. What we do not see is what we might call the hidden logic of success”. Syed calls this motivation by association. He says if we find even the slightest similarity between someone successful and ourselves, it can motivate us to multiply our work efforts. Lesson 3: You can tell yourself an event is not a big deal to avoid choking under pressure. Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance”. The ten-thousand-hour rule, then, is inadequate as a predictor of excellence. What is required is ten thousand hours of purposeful practice”.

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The book is really very good. I've long had the opinion that genius is developed rather than born, in spite of being preached the 'talent' myth by my parents. His book Bounce thus turned out to be a book that focused on excellence in sports. It is always a great literally contribution when you have an expert with hands-on experience share their insights in a manner that is clear, easy to understand Instead of wasting the resources of his prefrontal cortex on trying to get the ball spin right, he can use his brain to think about tactics, because the movements of his hand are taken care of. Lesson 2:You can be inspiredto work hard bythe most trivial details.

You can combat this performance anxiety by telling yourself that it’s really not such a big deal and that the event doesn’t matter to you. Key features include 7ft wide cinematic screen with HD projector and a state of the art wireless presentation system. Talent is overrated! Practice can’t be! You Need Motivation to Succeed – and Sometimes It Can Be Something Trivial And for undergraduates in a simple experiment – it was sharing the birthday with someone who had successfully solved the assignment they were about to!

In addition he completely debunks the racial stereotyping attributed to perceived racial dominance in sports such as sprinting and distance running with scientific experiments and their accompanying data. A brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in excellence... and science! A very firm Four Star, 9 out of 12 read Looking into hundreds of faces, knowing they were all expecting him to fail, the pressure to perform became so enormous, that all his hardly trained rhyming skills seemed to vanish. When I first read the title ‘Bounce’ by Matthew Syed, I was more intrigued with the name of the author than on what the book was about. You see, you’re making a terrible mistake when you compare Mozart to other six-year-olds. You should instead compare him to other people who have practiced about 3,500 hours. Because that’s exactly how much time Mozart had spent in front of his piano by the time he was six!NID cookie, set by Google, is used for advertising purposes; to limit the number of times the user sees an ad, to mute unwanted ads, and to measure the effectiveness of ads. Complexity] describes those tasks characterized by combinatorial explosion; tasks where success is determined, first and foremost, by superiority in software (pattern recognition and sophisticated motor programmes) rather than hardware (simple speed or strength)”.

To become a world-class achiever in any field, it is not only the sheer number of hours of practice that is important; it is also the type of practice. Syed writes that "world-class performance comes by striving for a target just out of reach, but with a vivid awareness of how the gap might be breached. Over time, through constant repetition and deep concentration, the gap will disappear, only for a new target to be created, just out of reach once again." And he writes that "Excellence is about stepping outside the comfort zone, training with a spirit of endeavor, and accepting the inevitability of trials and tribulations." The first half of the book consists of direct quotes from and regurgitation of Colvin and Coyle's books and says nothing new about the alleged main subject of the book. Well, it doesn’t work. Lowering standards just leads to poorly educated students who feel entitled to easy work and lavish praise.”It’s noteworthy that many of the contemporaries of Galileo (inventor of the modern telescope) really did think there was something morally dubious about the telescope; that it was taking humanity beyond the powers expressly sanctioned by God. They were the moral conservatives of their day. It is not difficult to imagine that those currently opposing genetic enhancement may one day be seen in the same light.”