Money and Finance
..................
Related book: The Sports Gene
There is also a video interview, broken into a few clips, with Epstein on the book HERE.
- Links
Jason Zweig: Are You Hot or Not? For Investors, It’s Hard to Tell (LINK) David Brooks: The Moral Bucket List (LINK) Related book: The Road to Character Related link (video): David Brooks on Charlie RoseMeb Faber: If US Stocks Are Expensive, How...
- 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...
- Man And Superman: In Athletic Competitions, What Qualifies As A Sporting Chance? – By Malcolm Gladwell
Thanks to Sean for passing this along. What we are watching when we watch élite sports, then, is a contest among wildly disparate groups of people, who approach the starting line with an uneven set of genetic endowments and natural advantages. There...
- Malcolm Gladwell: Complexity And The Ten-thousand-hour Rule
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...
- 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...
Money and Finance
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 Gene
There is also a video interview, broken into a few clips, with Epstein on the book HERE.
- Links
Jason Zweig: Are You Hot or Not? For Investors, It’s Hard to Tell (LINK) David Brooks: The Moral Bucket List (LINK) Related book: The Road to Character Related link (video): David Brooks on Charlie RoseMeb Faber: If US Stocks Are Expensive, How...
- 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...
- Man And Superman: In Athletic Competitions, What Qualifies As A Sporting Chance? – By Malcolm Gladwell
Thanks to Sean for passing this along. What we are watching when we watch élite sports, then, is a contest among wildly disparate groups of people, who approach the starting line with an uneven set of genetic endowments and natural advantages. There...
- Malcolm Gladwell: Complexity And The Ten-thousand-hour Rule
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...
- 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...