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Bounce

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

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Bounce

By: Matthew Syed
Narrated by: James Clamp
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 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. Career Success Social Sciences Sports Psychology Sports Inspiring Thought-Provoking

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The first part of the books just seems like common sense that people ignore on a day to day basis. I would strongly recommend this for any young parents or soon to be parents.

Must Read!

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Extremely informative and good jumping off point for further reading into more specific issues discussed throughout the book.

Ignites the desire to delve deeper.

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Changed my view of the the phrase 'practice makes perfect'. It seems it certainly does, regardless of your walk of life.

Interesting listen

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A fascinating and insightful listen. A must listen for anyone who wishes to improve oneself.

A must listen

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this book breaks down a lot of what is understood of sport and athletes and explains the difference between talent vs hardwork. the examples it uses provide an excellent way to illustrate the details.

brilliantly interesting.

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Thee best book I have ever came across for understanding success and failures in all aspects of life

Amazing

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Great little insight on how to become master of your craft. Amazing experiment results throughout.

Good insight

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This book was recommended by a colleague and I was captured within the first 15 minutes.

I my layman's terms I would say that this book will help you to understand the psychology and mechanisms of success.

The narrator does a great job with a clear delivery at pace. The quick pace made the narration and content very engaging. I skipped back a few times, but that was because I wanted to confirm my understanding.

Exceptionally informative...

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Essential reading for all parents. I wish I had read this book when my older children were young as I think it would have changed how I encouraged them to do better. I have recommended to almost all my friends. The end of the book though seems to go off in a different direction completely.

Great book but less impressive in the last 3rd.

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I really do enjoy Mathew Syed's work, the first 3/4 of this book were the most interesting to me, I felt the book started to lose momentum when Mathew started exploring genetics and enhanced performance, still engaging but I found I was looking forward to the end of the book.

Interesting...

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