The Sports Gene

Talent, Practice and the Truth About Success

De: David Epstein

Narrado por: David Epstein

In this ground-breaking and entertaining exploration of athletic success, award-winning writer David Epstein gets to the heart of the great nature vs. nurture debate, and explodes myths about how and why humans excel.

Along the way, Epstein exposes the flaws in the so-called 10,000-hour rule that states that rigorous practice from a young age is the only route to success. He shows why some skills that we imagine are innate are not – like the bullet-fast reactions of a baseball player – and why other characteristics that we assume are entirely voluntary, like the motivation to practice, might in fact have important genetic components. Throughout, The Sports Gene forces us to rethink the very nature of success.

©2013 David Epstein (P)2013 Gildan Media LLC. Published in the UK by Random House Audiobooks

Note to narrator: no more accents please

A very good book that's well researched, and narrator was pretty good but tries to use some awkward (and at times cringeworthy) accents when reading quoted statements, sometimes seemingly giving up on the accent mid way through the quote.