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Our book shelf is always bursting at the seams with the latest reads. So, in the spirit of sharing, we decided to create a book club. Read on for our review of Bounce by Matthew Syed. What is Bounce all about? 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… Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance”. What set great achievers and successful people apart from the rest? Simple: hard work and practice.
Complexity] describes those tasks characterized by combinatorial explosion; tasks where success is determined, first and foremost, by superiority in software (pattern recognition and sophisticated motor programmes) rather than hardware (simple speed or strength)”. Unlimited ping pong and other games for the entirety of your booking, including 10+ ping pong tables, classic beer pong, shuffle boards and digital Wonderball After Part I, Syed's largely anecdotal structure becomes tired. Too many flowery descriptions about athletes' lives and I wasn't nearly as intrigued by the conclusions. They were mostly just a spinning out of the points he made in the first part. I would've restructured the book to fit the theses of parts II and III into part I. I really enjoyed Syed's description of the difference between a scientist and an athlete. A scientist always is in doubt with a sense of inner skepticism. However, a good athlete should not be in doubt; to an athlete, doubt is poison.Though the book is divided into three sections namely The Talent Myth, Paradoxes of the Mind and Deep Reflections, I felt the book had a singular theme and that was the capacity of any human being to become the best of best if he was able to dedicate the time, effort, money and yes – his own life to one single cause with absolute excellence and commitment. It is also worth noting that the development of motor expertise (skilled movement) is inseparable from the development of perceptual expertise (chunking patterns)”. It is often said that in elite sport the margins of victory and defeat are measured in milliseconds: the reality is that they are measured in variables that are far more elusive.”
Book all 10 sessions in one go, or choose your remaining classes whenever you like within your 60 day period. The Class Pass is assigned to your log-in and will be recorded each time you select a space. Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal [of purposeful practice] is to extend one’s mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one’s capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person”. Nominated for William Hill's Sports Book of the Year in 2010, this examines the case for the hypothesis that natural talent is bunk, and practice is what makes you great. Syed is an ex table tennis player, and focuses on sport, but covers examples from anywhere he can find them, including the collapse of Enron. Well, because, he trained his brain to be perfect for table tennis! Namely, to select only the information relevant to the game; after all, he didn’t need to be able to react fast when someone threw food at him. Douglas mastered something sociologists call deliberate practice. You see, you’re making a terrible mistake when you compare Mozart to other six-year-olds. You should instead compare him to other people who have practiced about 3,500 hours. Because that’s exactly how much time Mozart had spent in front of his piano by the time he was six!
Key Lessons from “Bounce”
And for undergraduates in a simple experiment – it was sharing the birthday with someone who had successfully solved the assignment they were about to!
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