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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: To truly excel, 10,000 hours of practice will far outpace any natural abilities you were born with alone.
Chapter 3: To master new skills, continue pushing yourself and always learn lessons from your failures.
Chapter 4: Intense practice rewires how your brain operates, rendering it more effective overall.
Chapter 5: If you think success hinges on inborn talent, you won’t push yourself to truly excel and achieve.
Chapter 6: Strong ambition to succeed can ignite from the most seemingly trivial circumstances alone.
Chapter 7: If you aren’t certain you’ll win a competition, you cannot deliver your absolute best possible performance out there.
Chapter 8: Under pressure, when we desperately want to avoid failure, our brains force cautious, deliberate action from us all.
Chapter 9: Prevent choking under pressure by persuading yourself the event truly isn’t important.
Description
In Bounce (2011), Matthew Syed explores the origins of outstanding achievements in fields like sports, mathematics and music. He argues that it is intensive training, not natural ability that determines our success, and people who attribute great performances to natural gifts will probably miss their own chance to succeed due to lack of practice.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who has big plans but is not sure that they have what it takes to succeed
- Anyone who’s interested in the secret of brilliant performances
- Anyone who wants to raise children who achieve their goals
- Anyone who wants to understand the underlying mechanisms of “choking” under pressure