Bounce: The of Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice

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The ten years rule of creativity: What seems lie pure, untainted mystical creativity is, in fact, the consequence of lifetime devotion.

Bounce: The of Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice

These events are so powerful because they are small and indirect. It is called motivation by association; a small, barely noticed connection searing deep into the subconscious and sparking a motivational response.

When we listen to a conversation in our own language, we hear a series of distinct words separated by tiny gap of silence. But no such silence actually exists. It is our knowledge of the grammatical structure of our language that enables us to retouch the acoustic information so that we hear it in a neatly structured form. Ericsson: when most people practice, they focus on the things that they can do effortless. Expert practice is different. It entails considerable, specific and sustained efforts to do something you can’t do well – or even at all. It is only by working on what you can’t do that you turn into the expert you

Bounce: The Myth of Talent and The Power of Practice

But looking more closely at the phenomenon of child prodigies, we find that in fact they had to practice for thousands of hours before showing their so-called prodigious talent. In fact, scientists studying the phenomenon have found that typically a prodigy’s training begins at a very early age and that they compress endless hours of practice into their young lives. A key difference between experts and novices is that experts are better at extracting information from what’s going on around them. Federer can anticipate the movements of a tennis ball more efficiently that the rest of us, not because he has better eyesight but because he know where to look and how to interpret the movement pattern of his opponent.Believing in something beyond the self can have a hugely beneficial psychological impact, even if the belief is fallacious. If the performer doesn’t feel any pressure, there is no pressure – and the conscious mind will not attempt to wrestle control from the implicit system.

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Over time we have developed the ability to sculpt perceptions using top-down knowledge; it provides immediacy. Instead of having to infer the existence of a face in a pattern of dots or the structure in mammogram, you can see it. It is there. The inference is, as it were, embedded in perception. Expertise is a long-term development process, resulting from rich instrumental experiences in the world and extensive practice. Study on decision-making in the real world: The curious thing was not that top-decision makers like firefighters and doctors were making choices based on unexpected favors; it was that they did not seem to be making choices at all.Matthew Syed is an Olympic athlete. His sport is table tennis. He writes about how he’s realised that his prowess at the sport has nothing whatsoever to do with any innate talent or any quirk of genetics but is entirely due to careful, purposeful practise.