The Greatest, Matthew Syed
The Greatest, Matthew Syed
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The Greatest
The Quest for Sporting Perfection

Author: Matthew Syed, Matthew Syed Consulting Ltd

Narrator: Simon Slater

Unabridged: 9 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: John Murray

Published: 02/23/2017


Synopsis

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 illusive quest for perfection, provides the answers.

(P)2017 John Murray Press

Author Bio

Matthew Syed is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Black Box Thinking, Bounce, and The Greatest. He writes an award-winning newspaper column in The Times and is the host of the hugely successful BBC podcast Flintoff, Savage and the Ping Pong Guy.

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