Bounce: The of Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice

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However, don’t go overboard: too much confidence results in less practice and a bigger chance for a failure at a later stage. That’s what happens to many of the overexposed Mozarts of today! By comparing the outcome of the shot with the color movie of his intention, he was able to learn and adapt in the most efficient way on every single stroke he ever played. World-class performers emerge from mindset. Perhaps the key of any institution is to encourage the adoption of a growth mindset.

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Anticlimax: we might feel miserable after a triumph. This is so that we are able to disengage from our triumph, enabling us to focus on the next challenge. If goal fulfillment induced indefinite periods of contentment, we would be robbed of all future motivation. For an award-winning writer, it is the melancholy that provides the creative impetus for the next literary adventure.In a nutshell, when chess masters look at the positions of the pieces on a board, they see the equivalent of a word. Their long experience of playing chess enables them to “chunk” the pattern with a limited number of visual fixations in the same way that our familiarity with language enables us to chunk the letters constituting a familiar word. It is a skill derived from years of familiarity with the right “language”, not talent. (p. 24) Attention is a resource with severe capacity limitations. Most of us have the same bandwidth available for conscious processing, but experts, by automating perceptual and motor programs, are able to create spare capacity. Recognition of familiar scenarios and the chunking of perceptual information into meaningful wholes and patterns speed up processes.

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The iceberg illusion by Ericsson: when we witness extraordinary feats of memory (or of sporting or artistic prowess) we are witnessing the end product of a process measured in years. What is invisible for us – the submerged evidence, as it were – is the countless hours of practice that have gone intoBut think if an expert were to find himself using the wrong brain system. No matter how great he is, he would strive because he is using his explicit rather than internal system. The highly sophisticated skills encoded in the implicit part of his brain would count for nothing. The information that is provided through our eyes and ears are only loosely connected to the way we experience the world. Choking is a species of failure so absolute that it looks as if there is an entirely different player out on view.

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A young performer has a sizeable head start on anybody who commences their training a few years later. However, Mozart was a child only in terms of age. In terms of musical proficiency – he was an adult. That is – someone who has practiced playing the piano for more than 3,500 hours! When we are under pressure and don’t want to fail, our brains make us act cautiously and deliberately. And the difference between the best and the good is not only in the amount of time they spend practicing, but also the way they test themselves after they don’t need to anymore!Now, you have to agree: not many books can put such names next to each other and walk away from it unscathed. Ericson’s experiment: purposeful practice was the only factor distinguishing the best from the rest. It is practice, not talent that ultimately matters. Purposeful practice also builds new neural connections, increase the size of specific sections of the brain, and enables the expert to co-opt new areas of grey matter in the quest to improve. Imagine a child pianist practicing to play her favorite songs by ear. She may spend many afternoons practicing at the piano, but it’s likely that as soon as she gets close to the original, she’ll work less and less hard to improve further as her performance is already good enough.

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Talent is overrated – and never enough! And if you really want to succeed in anything in life, you’ll have to repeat this truism as if a mantra. And pair it up with another: practice makes perfect, practice makes perfect, practice makes perfect… Most of us can’t find any motivation for well, anything but building Lego castles – when we’re children! When we get older, our success depends on it. Essential reading for an astounding summer of sport; If you’ve ever wondered what makes a champion, Bounce has the answer. Different things motivate different people, but the best part of it is – some of them are even trivial. For example, for Mia Hamm, that something was her coach telling her to “switch on.” For South Korean female golfers, it was Se-ri Pak winning the U.S. Open at the age of 20. The talent theory is not merely flawed in theory; it is insidious in practice, robbing individuals and institutions of the motivation to change themselves and the society. Expertise is ultimately about the quality and quantity of practice.

“Bounce Summary”

Syed, sportswriter and columnist for the London Times, takes a hard look at performance psychology, heavily influenced by his own ego-damaging but fruitful epiphany. At the age of 24, Syed became the #1 British table tennis player, an achievement he initially attributed to his superior speed and agility. But in retrospect, he realizes that a combination of advantages—a mentor, good facilities nearby, and lots of time to hone his skills—set him up perfectly to become a star performer. If the performer doesn’t feel any pressure, there is no pressure – and the conscious mind will not attempt to wrestle control from the implicit system.