Bounce

by Matthew Syed

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Syed challenges the talent myth, showing how environment, opportunity, and purposeful practice explain world-class performance. What looks like natural gift is accumulated training.

Published:: 2010
Pages:: 336

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In the Conversation

In this collection, Bounce references 2 other books and is cited by 1 other book.

It draws on Mindset and Flow.

It’s picked up by The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance.

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What Bounce Draws On

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Bounce repackages Dweck's growth vs fixed mindset on innate talent.

References

Mindset

by Carol Dweck

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Syed draws on Csikszentmihalyi's flow on the zone athletes enter.

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Flow

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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What Other Authors Say About It

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Epstein's analysis of the nature-nurture interaction in sports both builds on and challenges Syed's argument in Bounce that success is overwhelmingly a product of practice and opportunity rather than innate gifts

Cited in

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

by David Epstein

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Emotional Intelligence

Man's Search for Meaning

Nicomachean Ethics

The Selfish Gene

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