Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice

Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice
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Originally published as BOUNCE: How Champions Are MadeThe ‘Freakonomics of Sport’…What are the real secrets of sporting success, and what lessons do they offer about life in general? Why doesn’t Tiger Woods “choke”? Why are the best figure skaters those that have fallen over the most and why has one small street in Reading produced more top table tennis players than the rest of the country put together.As a three-time Commonwealth table-tennis champion and two-time Olympian, Matthew Syed is perfectly placed to show what it takes to get to the top in any discipline. And as an award-winning writer for the sports and comment pages of the Times – and holder of a prize-winning degree from Oxford University – he knows the facts, the science and the personalities better than anyone.In his book Matt overturns myths and outdated thinking to show “why it is that top sportsmen seem to perceive faster, smarter and deeper than the rest of us.” He draws on the latest in neuroscience and psychology to discover why so many top athletes are superstitious, and meets the Hungarian man who turned his daughters into three of the best chess players in history – and explains how.Along the way, he introduces an extraordinary cast of footballers, cricketers, baseball players, speedskaters, scientists and experts – and interviews the East German athlete who became a man, and her husband. Matthew’s book is crammed full of fascinating stories and telling studies, insights and statistics, all brought together to make a wonderfully thought-provoking read.Matthew’s book is not simply the Freakonomics of sport though – it looks at big questions such as the nature of talent, what kind of practice actually works, how to achieve motivation, drugs in sport (and life) and whether black people really are faster runners. Fresh, ground-breaking and tackling subjects with wide appeal, Matthew’s book is sure to be one of the most talked-about of the year.

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Matthew Syed. Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice

Bounce. How Champions Are Made. Matthew Syed

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Table of Contents

1 The Hidden Logic of Success. The Autobiographical Bias

1. Table

2. My Brother

3. Peter Charters

4. Omega

The Myth of Meritocracy

What Is Talent?

Talent Is Overrated

The Mind’s Eye

Knowledge Is Power

2 Miraculous Children? The Myth of the Child Prodigy

A Tale of Three Sisters

Susan

Sofia

Judit

Human Calculators

3 The Path to Excellence. The Power (and Impotence) of Practice

Accelerated Learning. Falling Down

Calypso Magic and Hoop Lessons

Brain Transformation

The Structure of Innovation

Feedback Loops

Lessons from Golf

Applying the Lessons

Zero-Sum Games

4 Mysterious Sparks and Life-Changing Mindsets. Mysterious Sparks

Motivational Jolts

The Talent Myth Revisited

The Power of Words

Citadels of Excellence

When Talent Rules

The Garden Shed

5 The Placebo Effect. A Tin of Sardines

Mind over Matter

Religion as Placebo?

The Placebo Effect in Sport

Irrational Optimism

Doublethink

A Philosophical Conclusion

6 The Curse of Choking and How to Avoid It. Humiliation in Sydney

The Great White Shark Drowns

A Tale of Two Brain Systems

Psychological Reversion

Doublethink Revisited

7 Baseball Rituals, Pigeons, and Why Great Sportsmen Feel Miserable after Winning. Superstition

Anticlimax

8 Optical Illusions and X-ray Vision. Illusion and Reality

X-ray Vision

Inattentional Blindness

Blindness That Kills

9 Drugs in Sport, Schwarzenegger Mice, and the Future of Mankind. Heidi Krieger

To Ban or Not to Ban?

Genetic Enhancement

Zero-Sum Games

Krieger’s Happy Ending

10 Are Blacks Superior Runners? Lightning Bolts

Flawed Generalizations

Genetic Variation

The Indiana Jones of Sport

If Not Genes, Then ... What?

What About the Sprints?

The Meaning of ‘Black’ Sporting Success

Stereotype Threat

Notes. 1. The Hidden Logic of Success

2. Miraculous Children?

3. The Path to Excellence

4. Mysterious Sparks and Life-Changing Mindsets

5. The Placebo Effect

6. The Curse of Choking and How to Avoid It

7. Baseball Rituals, Pigeons, and Why Great Sportsmen Feel Miserable after Winning

8. Optical Illusions and X-ray Vision

9. Drugs in Sport, Schwarzenegger Mice, and the Future of Mankind

10. Are Blacks Superior Runners?

Index

Acknowledgements

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For Dilys

Title Page

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Most people would conclude from this rather humbling experience that the ability to connect with, let alone return, a serve delivered at more than 130 mph must belong exclusively to those with innate reaction speeds – what are sometimes called instincts – at the outer limits of human capability. It is an inference that almost jumps up and bites you when the ball has just rocketed so fast past your nose that you’re relieved at having avoided injury.

But I was forbidden from reaching any such conclusion. Why? Because in different circumstances, I have those extraordinary reaction speeds. When I stand behind a table tennis table, I am able to react to, and return, smash-kills in the blink of an eye. The time available to return a serve in tennis is approximately 450 milliseconds; but there are less than 250 milliseconds in which to return a smash-kill in table tennis. So, why could I return the latter and not the former?

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