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The Greatest

What Sport Teaches Us About Achieving Success
By Matthew Syed Consulting Ltd and Matthew Syed
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The Greatest by Matthew Syed delves into the intriguing world of sports, exploring what truly defines greatness in athletes. It examines the myths around talent and instead focuses on the impact of practice, psychology, and the mindset necessary for excellence. The book provides insights into achieving success by challenging conventional beliefs about athletic achievement.
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The Greatest

A collection of award-winning writing on the science and psychology of sport from Matthew Syed, columnist, podcast and author of Black Box Thinking.

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What can Roger Federer teach us about the secret of longevity?

What do the All Blacks have in common with improvised jazz musicians?

What can cognitive neuroscientists tell us about what happens to the brains of sportspeople when they perform?

And why did Johan Cruyff believe that beauty was more important than winning?

Matthew Syed, the 'Sports Journalist of the Year 2016', answers these questions and more in a fascinating, wide-ranging and provocative book about the mental game of sport.

How do we become the best that we can be, as individuals, teams and as organisations? Sport, with its innate sense of drama, its competitive edge, its psychological pressures, its sense of morality and its elusive quest for perfection, provides the answers.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781473653665

Publisher: John Murray Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 September 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 41g

Pages: 304

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Coaching & Motivation Matthew Syed Matthew Syed Consulting Ltd Non-Fiction Sports

About the Author

Matthew Syed is a leading columnist and feature writer for The Times and twice winner of the 'Sports Journalist of the Year' at the British Press Awards. He makes authored features for the BBC current affairs programme Newsnight and regularly appears on CNN International and World Service TV. After graduating from Oxford University with a prize-winning First in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Matthew was the England table tennis number one for almost a decade, three times Commonwealth Champion, and he twice represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games.

Matthew Syed's first book Bounce was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and became a UK bestseller. Matthew's second book Black Box Thinking was a Sunday Times number one bestseller.

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