BOUNCE:  Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Tiger and the Science of Success autorstwa Mathew Syed 

Following in the footsteps of such international bestselling authors as Dan Ariely, Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Levitt, Olympic tennis table champion and award-winning journalist Matthew Syed reveals the hidden clues to success - in sports, business, school, and just about anything else that you’d want to be great at. 

 

BOUNCE has a straightforward objective: to change our perception of the world by transforming our understanding of sports. Sports, after all, are just about the most vivid, primal, and dramatic of all human pursuits, revealing many of our innermost instincts and emotions. And this is why sports offer such powerful - but often overlooked - tools with which to better understand many of our greatest controversies, whether in genetics, race, sex, politics or economics.  

By examining the world through the lens of sports, questions inevitably arise that have important social repercussions and meaning:

- What is greatness and how can it be achieved? Why do some people fail to improve with experience?

- How can our irrational beliefs surprisingly aid our performance? Is there a “placebo effect” in our thoughts about sportsmanship?

- What causes people to choke and how can it be avoided?

- What is the real-time market for sports stars and how do we determine if they are worth the salaries we pay them?

- Are men really better than women at sports? Why are there so many lesbians who excel in sports, but so few gay men? Do certain races outperform others? Or is there another explanation for all of these differences in performance?

 

By dissecting the real reasons behind why some people excel at certain tasks Syed proves that talent is not what we perceive it to be--an inborn ability to do something better than others. In fact,recent revolutionary findings in cognitive neuroscience show that the human mind and body can be transformed through practice, hard work, and determination. Through innovative science, detailed research, and personal accounts, BOUNCE will change the way wesee the world.

 O Autorze:

Matthew Syed, 39, is a former table tennis champion, two-time Olympian, and Oxford graduate who writes a column for the London Times. He is a commentator for the BBC and Eurosport, and was recently named British Sports Feature Writer of the Year by the Sports Journalists’ Association and Sports Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. This is his first book.

Prasa o książce:

"Sport is often used as an analogy for business, education, and personal relationships. In this insightful and entertaining book, Matthew Syed takes us a step deeper into the world of sports, showing us how much we can learn about our own behavior."   -  Dan Ariely, New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational

Autor: Mathew Syed

Data dodania: 2010-02-03