Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success

Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success

By Matthew Syed

In the vein of the international bestselling Freakonomics, award-winning journalist Matthew Syed reveals the hidden clues to success in sports, business, school, and just about anything else that you d want to be great at. Fans of Predictably Irrational and Malcolm Gladwell s The Tipping Point will find many interesting and helpful insights in Bounce.

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Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publish Date: 05/03/2011
Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780061723766
ISBN-10: 0061723762
Language: English

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"A cutting edge dissection--and ultimate destruction--of the myth of innate talent in the pursuit of excellence. Syed synthesizes his evidence with the precision of an academic, writes with the fluidity of a journalist, and persuades with the drive of a sportsman. Read this book now--before its too late. There are no excuses!" -- Mark Thomas, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics, University College London

In the vein of the international bestselling Freakonomics, award-winning journalist Matthew Syed reveals the hidden clues to success--in sports, business, school, and just about anything else that you'd want to be great at. Fans of Predictably Irrational and Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point will find many interesting and helpful insights in Bounce.

About the Author

Matthew Syed is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Black Box Thinking, Bounce, and The Greatest. He writes an award-winning newspaper column in The Times and is the host of the hugely successful BBC podcast Flintoff, Savage and the Ping Pong Guy.

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