Bounce: How Champions Are Made - Softcover

Syed, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000735052X ISBN 13: 9780007350520

Verlag: Fourth Estate, 2010

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From the author of You Are Awesome: Find Your Confidence and Dare to be Brilliant at (Almost) Anything

Essential reading for an astounding summer of sport; If you’ve ever wondered what makes a champion, Bounce has the answer.

In Bounce Matthew Syed - an award-winning Times columnist and three-time Commonwealth table-tennis champion - reveals what really lies behind world-beating achievement in sport, and other walks of life besides. The answers - taking in the latest in neuroscience, psychology and economics - will change the way we look at sports stars and revolutionise our ideas about what it takes to become the best.

From the upbringing of Mozart to the mindset of Mohammed Ali - via the recruitment policies of Enron - Bounce weaves together fascinating stories and telling insights and statistics into a wonderfully thought-provoking read. Bounce looks at big questions - such as the real nature of talent, what kind of practice actually works, how to achieve motivation, drugs in both sport and life, and whether black people really are faster runners.

Along the way Matthew talks to a Hungarian father whose educational theories saw his daughters become three of the best chess players of all time, meets a female East German athlete who became a man, and explains why one small street in Reading - his own - has produced more top table-tennis players than the rest of Britain put together. Fresh, ground-breaking and tackling subjects with broad appeal, Bounce is sure to be one of the most talked about books of the year.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Matthew Syed is an award-winning journalist on the times, writing for both the sports pages and the comment pages.
He is a three-time Commonwealth table-tennis champion and competed in two Olympics.
He studied PPE at Balliol College Oxford where he was awarded a prize-winning first class degree.

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BOUNCE: HOW CHAMPIONS ARE MADE

Just what does it take to become the very best? Matthew Syed uncovers the "hidden logic of success" behind the careers of world-beaters from David Beckham and Serena Williams to Mozart and Picasso.

Looking at the latest in sports science, neuroscience, psychology and economics, Matthew reveals the idea of God-given talent to be a myth, and that the key to achieving greatness lies in hard work, and the right attitude and training.

Along the way Matthew explains how memory and inspiration prime our brains for success, why top sportsmen are able to see and perceive faster than the rest of us, and how genes are starting to matter - but not in the way you might think.

In Bounce, Matthew draws a new map of the road to the top.

Winners aren't born, they are made.

Talent is something you build yourself.

Also in the book:

- why one small street in Reading - Matthew's own - produced more table-tennis champions that the rest of Britain put together

- why one region of Kenya has produced so many of the world's great distance runners

- how a group of pigeons showed the role that superstition can play in success.

- how a Hungarian educationalist turned his daughters into three of the best chess players the world has ever seen.

- why Matthew "choked" at the Sydney Olympics, and how the greatest sportsmen are able to avoid this.
Matthew Syed

Matthew Syed is three-time Commonwealth table-tennis champion, an award-winning sports and comment writer for the Times, and has a prize-winning double-first class degree from Oxford University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fourth Estate
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 000735052X
• ISBN 13: 9780007350520
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar