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

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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.

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World-class performers emerge from mindset. Perhaps the key of any institution is to encourage the adoption of a growth mindset. The key is to be sensitive to the way the child is thinking and feeling, encouraging training without exerting undue pressure. Small populations have genetic traits that are often different from those of other populations; the short-limbed Inuit, for example, are different from aborigines.

Finally, you’ll also come to understand that most dreaded of occurrences: choking when the stakes are highest, despite thorough preparation. Thankfully, you’ll also learn about tools to avoid it happening to you. When it comes to the world of professional golf, for a long time South Korea was not really on the map. However, after South Korean golfer Se Ri Pak won the LPGA Championship in 1998, the number of South Koreans on the LPGA tour multiplied. This is not a coincidence. Federer has practiced for so long that the movement have been encoded in implicit rather than explicit memory. This is what psychologists call expert-induced amnesia. The ten years rule of creativity: What seems lie pure, untainted mystical creativity is, in fact, the consequence of lifetime devotion. Purposeful practice: the practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: progress. Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one´s mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of ones capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.

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Bounce” can – since it’s neither about music nor about football, neither about tennis nor about art. It’s about talent. A key aspect of brain transformation is myelin, a substance that wraps around the nerve fibers and that can dramatically increase the speed with which signals pass through the brain. For example, when the six-year-old Mozart toured Europe to display his precocious piano skills, he had already undergone 3,500 hours of musical training. If you compare this to other pianists who have practiced for as long, Mozart’s performance wasn’t all that exceptional. The dangers of starting out to hard, too young, often outweigh the benefits. One of the skills of a good coach is to tailor a training program to the mindset of the individual.

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The limiting factor in making a world-class stroke isn’t strength or brute force, but the executive control of fine motor movement to create perfect timing.