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Link to article: How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Talent The 8-year-old juggling a soccer ball and the 48-year-old jogging by, with Japanese lessons ringing from her earbuds, have something fundamental in common: At some level, both are wondering whether...
- Daniel Pink Talks To Malcolm Gladwell
Link to: Daniel Pink talks to Malcolm Gladwell ………………. Related book: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants Related previous posts: TED Talk - Malcolm Gladwell: The unheard story of David and Goliath Imagine...
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Forty years ago, in a paper in American Scientist, Herbert Simon and William Chase drew one of the most famous conclusions in the study of expertise:There are no instant experts in chess—certainly no instant masters or grandmasters. There appears not...
- Interview With David Epstein: How Athletes Get Great
Just train for 10,000 hours, right? Not quite. In his new book, author David Epstein argues that top-shelf athletic performance may be a more complicated formula than we’ve recently come to believe. .................. Related book: The Sports...
- It’s Good To Be Michael Lewis
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David Epstein on EconTalk
David Epstein, writer for ProPublica and author of The Sports Gene, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book. Epstein discusses a number of the ideas in the book including what we have learned about the nature vs. nurture debate, the role of practice in achieving mastery, why a small part of Kenya produces so many champion marathoners, why major league all-stars can't hit a fast-pitch softball, the strange nature of body types in the NBA and why Michael Phelps's body gives him an advantage.
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Related books:
The Sports Gene
Outliers: The Story of Success
Related previous posts:
Interview with David Epstein: How Athletes Get Great
Malcolm Gladwell: COMPLEXITY AND THE TEN-THOUSAND-HOUR RULE
MAN AND SUPERMAN: In athletic competitions, what qualifies as a sporting chance? – By Malcolm Gladwell
- How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall? Talent
Link to article: How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Talent The 8-year-old juggling a soccer ball and the 48-year-old jogging by, with Japanese lessons ringing from her earbuds, have something fundamental in common: At some level, both are wondering whether...
- Daniel Pink Talks To Malcolm Gladwell
Link to: Daniel Pink talks to Malcolm Gladwell ………………. Related book: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants Related previous posts: TED Talk - Malcolm Gladwell: The unheard story of David and Goliath Imagine...
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Forty years ago, in a paper in American Scientist, Herbert Simon and William Chase drew one of the most famous conclusions in the study of expertise:There are no instant experts in chess—certainly no instant masters or grandmasters. There appears not...
- Interview With David Epstein: How Athletes Get Great
Just train for 10,000 hours, right? Not quite. In his new book, author David Epstein argues that top-shelf athletic performance may be a more complicated formula than we’ve recently come to believe. .................. Related book: The Sports...
- It’s Good To Be Michael Lewis
Without The Blind Side, the Tuohys would be a family of local saints; with it, they are something like national heroes, touring the country from speaking engagement to speaking engagement on a kind of paid victory lap. They may be the most enterprising...