Summary of Matthew Syed's Bounce

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The American Dream encourages individuals to achieve greatness, but is it true. Many who have reached the top in sport or any other field choose to tell their stories with the American Dream attributes of speed, guile, and adaptability. But these are not always the attributes that elevate people above others.
#2 Mr. Charters was a teacher at the local primary school, a tall man with a mustache and a twinkle in his eye. He was the coach of almost all the after-school sporting clubs, the manager of the school soccer team, and the organizer of school sports day.
#3 Omega Table Tennis Club was a one-table hut in a gravel enclosure a couple of miles from where we lived in suburban Reading. It was cold in winter, ferociously hot in summer, and had plants growing through the roof and floor. But it had one advantage that made it unique: it was open 24 hours a day for the exclusive use of its members.
#4 The biographical bias is the tendency to believe that success is driven by ability and hard work, when in reality, it is not. Every successful person has been fortunate enough to live in a specific place and time, with a specific family background, that allowed them to learn and work hard.

Sujets

• Sport psychology

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 25 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669364511
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Matthew Syed's Bounce
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The American Dream encourages individuals to achieve greatness, but is it true. Many who have reached the top in sport or any other field choose to tell their stories with the American Dream attributes of speed, guile, and adaptability. But these are not always the attributes that elevate people above others.

#2

Mr. Charters was a teacher at the local primary school, a tall man with a mustache and a twinkle in his eye. He was the coach of almost all the after-school sporting clubs, the manager of the school soccer team, and the organizer of school sports day.

#3

Omega Table Tennis Club was a one-table hut in a gravel enclosure a couple of miles from where we lived in suburban Reading. It was cold in winter, ferociously hot in summer, and had plants growing through the roof and floor. But it had one advantage that made it unique: it was open 24 hours a day for the exclusive use of its members.

#4

The biographical bias is the tendency to believe that success is driven by ability and hard work, when in reality, it is not. Every successful person has been fortunate enough to live in a specific place and time, with a specific family background, that allowed them to learn and work hard.

#5

The idea that natural talent determines success and failure is so powerful today that it is accepted without question. It seems impossible to achieve similar results if given the same opportunities.

#6

In 1991, psychologists Anders Ericsson and colleagues conducted the most extensive investigation of the causes of outstanding performance. They found that the best violinists had practiced an average of ten thousand hours, more than two thousand hours more than the good violinists and more than six thousand hours more than the violinists hoping to become music teachers.

#7

The first part of the book will argue that talent is not what you think it is. It will explain how the body and mind can be transformed with specialized practice.

#8

The ten-year rule is the minimum amount of time needed to achieve world-class status in any complex task. It has been found that people need to practice for at least ten years to achieve excellence.

#9

The truth of the arguments in this book is going to have a huge impact on how we live our lives. If we believe that attaining excellence depends on talent, we will give up if we don’t show early promise. But if we believe that talent is not involved in achieving excellence, we will persevere and achieve success.

#10

The skewed distribution of birth dates is not limited to Canadian junior hockey. It is also seen in European youth soccer and U. S. youth baseball, and most sports where age-based selection and streaming are part of the process of molding the stars of the future.

#11

The ten-thousand-hour rule is the idea that you can master a skill by practicing it for about ten thousand hours. However, this rule is only applied to special skills that require intense concentration and sustained repetition.

#12

The idea that expertise is reserved for special people with special talents is a false one. Ericsson has spent the last thirty years uncovering the same groundbreaking logic in fields as diverse as sports, chess, music, education, and business.

#13

The letters in a word are arranged in a sequence that is instantly familiar. You are able to recall the entire series of letters by encoding them in a higher-order construct called a word. This is what psychologists call chunking.

#14

The same findings extend to other games like bridge, and much else besides. The amazing abilities of experts are not innate gifts but skills drawn from years of dedication that disappear as soon as they are transported beyond their specific realm of expertise.

#15

I played a game of tennis with Michael Stich, the former Wimbledon tennis champion from Germany, in December 2004. I was able to return his serve at maximum speed, but I was not able to return his smash-kill.

#16

The best table tennis player in the UK, Desmond Douglas, was tested by a scientist who said that his reactions were the slowest in the entire England team. His speed on a table tennis court was the result of something completely different.

#17

The same thing is happening in tennis. Top players are not demonstrating sharper reactions than you and I; they are simply able to extract more information from the service action of their opponents and other visual clues, which allows them to move into position earlier and more efficiently than the rest of us.

#18

The new science of expertise explains that speed in sport is not based on innate reaction speed, but derived from highly specific practice. Speed in sport is not based on innate reaction speed, but derived from highly specific practice.

#19

It is often