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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
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- Michael Mauboussin On Bloomberg (video)
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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 will be Donald Thomases who barely have to train, and there will be Eero Mäntyrantas, who carry around in their blood, by dumb genetic luck, the ability to finish forty seconds ahead of their competitors. Élite sports supply, as Epstein puts it, a “splendid stage for the fantastic menagerie that is human biological diversity.” The menagerie is what makes sports fascinating. But it has also burdened high-level competition with a contradiction. We want sports to be fair and we take elaborate measures to make sure that no one competitor has an advantage over any other. But how can a fantastic menagerie ever be a contest among equals?
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Related previous posts:
Malcolm Gladwell: COMPLEXITY AND THE TEN-THOUSAND-HOUR RULE
Interview with David Epstein: How Athletes Get Great
What it takes to be great
Related books:
Outliers: The Story of Success
The Sports Gene
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- How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall? Talent
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Michael Mauboussin On Bloomberg (video)
Found via The Big Picture. Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Mauboussin, chief investment strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management Inc., talks about his new book "The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing." Mauboussin...