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

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Compare it to your health, your family, your spouse or your best friends – does it really matter whether you win or lose the Super Bowl? If you think that you’re not talented about something – chances are you won’t become anyone important in that something. But not because you couldn’t have – merely because you have missed the point and spend too little time practicing. Unfortunately, I really didn't like this book. Seyd tries realy hard to write a story abuot success, but it ends up being somewhere between Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Pinker - success is a combination of hard work and being fortunate with the middle ground between good nature and nurture. It's hard for me not to be biased because I've read so many of these stories that they feel like they are only rehashing the ideas of others. Basically, for thousands of years humans believed it was not possible to run a mile in less than 4 minutes.

The book is really very good. I've long had the opinion that genius is developed rather than born, in spite of being preached the 'talent' myth by my parents. Among the many chapters he has outlined in his book, the one principle which I took to heart was the 10,000 hour principle. What he states is that what you tend to do for 10,000 hours with total dedication and excellence is what you will be good at – and it could be anything. And thus debunking the ‘talent myth’ as they call it. That is what made Mozart, Tiger Woods or the William sisters famous for who they were. In fact he humbly admits what took him to the top of his game was a simple advantage – he had access to learning table tennis and practicing it where so many others did not. This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

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Each booking grants you 55 minutes of exhilarating gameplay. (That final 5 minutes is to refresh the tables for the next players, so your party always has a fresh start.)What can happento all performers in such a high pressure situation, is that their conscious brain takes over, because itusually allows them to take extra caution and be very alert of every movement, so they don’t make a mistake. a study of the 120 most important scientists and 123 most famous poets and authors of the nineteenth century, it was found that ten years elapsed between their first work and their best work. Ten years, then, is the magic number for the attainment of excellence. In” Or that “Klein found that for chess experts the move quality hardly changed at all in blitz conditions”. Laughable, truly, for anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of high level chess.