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Monday, April 19, 2010 Book Review:
Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success by Matthew Syed
Harper, 2010
The 10,000 hour long road to stellar performance begins with 1 flow-caliber practice moment at a time. In my reading, "Bounce" effectively demystifies talent by getting the ego out of the way, emphasizing practice, leveraging intrinsic motivation, leveraging process-focus (rather than outcome-focus). This highly readable book offers tons of well-researched performance psychology and offers a no-nonsense path to perfect performance without perfectionism. An up-to-date, must resource for athletes, coaches, parents, and zero-sum competitors/players of any kind.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D., author of "Present Perfect: a Mindfulness Approach to Letting Go of Perfectionism and the Need to Control" (New Harbinger, June 2010)