Bounce
Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success
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Matthew Syed
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Why have all the sprinters who have run the 100 meters in under 10 seconds been black?
What's one thing Mozart, Venus Williams, and Michelangelo have in common?
Is it good to praise a child's intelligence?
Why are baseball players so superstitious?
Few things in life are more satisfying than beating a rival. We love to win and hate to lose, whether it's on the playing field or at the ballot box, in the office or in the classroom. In this bold new look at human behavior, award-winning journalist and Olympian Matthew Syed explores the truth about our competitive nature: why we win, why we don't, and how we really play the game of life.
Bounce reveals how competition - the most vivid, primal, and dramatic of human pursuits - provides vital insight into many of the most controversial issues of our time, from biology and economics, to psychology and culture, to genetics and race, to sports and politics.
Backed by cutting-edge scientific research and case studies, Syed shatters long-held myths about meritocracy, talent, performance, and the mind. He explains why some people thrive under pressure and others choke, and weighs the value of innate ability against that of practice, hard work, and will. From sex to math, from the motivation of children to the culture of big business, Bounce shows how competition provides a master key with which to unlock the mysteries of the world.
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The Captain Class
- The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams
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Several years ago, Sam Walker set out to answer one of the most hotly debated questions in sports: What are the greatest teams of all time? He devised a formula, then applied it to thousands of teams from leagues all over the world, from the NBA to the English Premier League to Olympic field hockey. When he was done, he had a list of the 16 most dominant teams in history. At that point he became obsessed with another, more complicated question: What did these freak teams have in common?
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Dates and names
- By Hunter on 11-28-21
By: Sam Walker
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Smarter
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- By: Dan Hurley
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Expanding upon one of the most-read New York Times Magazine features of 2012, Smarter penetrates the hot new field of intelligence research to reveal what researchers call a revolution in human intellectual abilities. Shattering decades of dogma, scientists began publishing studies in 2008 showing that "fluid intelligence" - the ability to learn, solve novel problems, and get to the heart of things - can be increased through training. But is it all just hype?
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People Who Like This Sort of Thing....
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By: Dan Hurley
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Faster, Higher, Stronger
- How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes - and What We Can Learn from Them
- By: Mark McClusky
- Narrated by: Mark McClusky
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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In Faster, Higher, Stronger, veteran journalist Mark McClusky brings listeners behind the scenes with a new generation of athletes, coaches, and scientists whose accomplishments are changing our understanding of human physical achievement and completely redefining the limits of the human body.
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Excellent Book
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By: Mark McClusky
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The Element
- How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
- By: Ken Robinson Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Ken Robinson Ph. D., Lou Aronica
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The Element shows the vital need to enhance creativity and innovation by thinking differently about human resources and imagination. It is an essential strategy for transforming education, business, and communities to meet the challenges of living and succeeding in the 21st century.
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Not Great
- By Samantha on 04-02-12
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Mastering Golf's Mental Game
- Your Ultimate Guide to Better On-Course Performance and Lower Scores
- By: Michael T. Lardon, Matthew Rudy, Phil Mickelson - foreword
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
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To be a golfer is to tinker-with everything from equipment to grip to swing. But one thing most players don't give enough attention to is the mental game. Psychologists aren't a new phenomenon in golf, but Dr. Michael Lardon is a different breed of performance coach. Instead of sending his players into a losing battle against emotion, indecision, and fear on the golf course, he shows them how to organize their thoughts and use them for maximum performance.
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The Best Book on Golf's Mental Game
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The Immortal Game
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Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? What is it about its 32 figurative pieces, moving about its 64 black and white squares according to very simple rules, that has captivated people for nearly 1,500 years? Why has it driven some of its greatest players into paranoia and madness, and yet is hailed as a remarkably powerful intellectual tool?
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Buy in print
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The End of Average
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Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how close we come to it or how far we deviate from it. The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality test results, and performance review ratings—reveal something meaningful about our potential is so ingrained in our consciousness that we don't even question it. That assumption, says Harvard's Todd Rose, is spectacularly—and scientifically—wrong.
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Good intentions, terrible execution
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Springboard
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- By: G. Richard Shell
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Everyone knows that you are supposed to "follow your dream". But where is the road map to help you discover what that dream is? You have just found it. In Springboard, award-winning author and teacher G. Richard Shell helps you find your future. His advice: Take an honest look inside and then answer two questions: What, for me, is success? How will I achieve it? You will begin by assessing your current beliefs about success, including the hidden influences of family, media, and culture. These are where the pressures to live "someone else's life" come from.
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Great book and fascinating perspective on success
- By Austin on 01-07-15
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Sway
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- By: Rom Brafman, Ori Brafman
- Narrated by: John Apicella
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A Harvard Business School student pays over $200 for a $20 bill. Washington, D.C., commuters ignore a free subway concert by a violin prodigy. A veteran airline pilot attempts to take off without control-tower clearance and collides with another plane on the runway. Why do we do the wildly irrational things we sometimes do?
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Disappointing book
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The Culture Code
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- By: Daniel Coyle
- Narrated by: Will Damron
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In The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle goes inside some of the world's most successful organizations - including Pixar, the San Antonio Spurs, and the US Navy's SEAL Team Six - and reveals what makes them tick. He demystifies the culture-building process by identifying three key skills that generate cohesion and cooperation and explains how diverse groups learn to function with a single mind.
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Anyone in a leadership position should read this
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Grit to Great
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- Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell
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It is not native intelligence or natural talent that makes people excel, say Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval - it's old-fashioned sweat equity and hard work. And that claim is backed up by new research from MacArthur Fellowship Award winner and University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth, among others. Not everyone is blessed with exceptional intelligence, or wins the gene lottery. But the good news is that you can excel beyond your wildest dreams in your career and your personal life - success is within your grasp - through the right attitude and determination.
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Expected more
- By Shaun Guerrero on 12-28-15
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- V.D.
- 09-28-10
great book from an essential perspective
the chapter on drugs felt out of place, but the rest of the book was awesome. even if you are familiar with some of the content (as i was from reading outliers and other similar books), the material in this book is more exhaustive, and Syed's perspective on the topic (as a world champion and an outlier himself) is essential to understanding topics like expert chunking (e.g. the part where he plays tennis with a pro). great book
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- The Realest
- 05-15-18
Author fundaments concept, but too many stories
is a good book, but stories are too long you have to dig in to get to the wisdom nuggets or you will miss them.
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- Kien Nguyen
- 08-06-18
Practice makes perfect
I liked the book. Basically, practice makes perfect. Start early, keep on training, be mindful about it and eventually you will be very good at it.
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- Louann
- 02-06-12
Loved it
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Yes I recommend, I enjoyed the energy of the narrator. His narratives describing the theories were excellent.
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I have not listened to this narrator before, but will listen again.
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- MR
- 04-11-17
Eye opening
A varied look at sporting successes that has made me question some of my own beliefs and approaches.
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- jacob b.
- 02-02-23
amazing book for anyone doing anything performance
highly recommend fot anyone playing sports or anything that is competitive and wants to improve
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- Ian Hutchinson
- 07-06-23
Insightful to brilliant
One of my favourite books of the year! Well research, thoughtful and keen to read more of his books
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- Lawrence
- 09-11-15
Excellent piece of literature
I learned new things about practicing and just how strong the mind is under immense pressure.
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- Dalia Karmon
- 07-25-15
Some parts are super interesting while others not strongly connected
All in all it was enlightening and interesting and made me think on how to raise my kids.
I recommended it already.
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Performance
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Story
- ahmed
- 04-10-22
Very good
There’s a lot of lessons to learn in this book about being good at anything you do in life, I really liked it. And the performance is very good.
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