The Greatest
What Sport Teaches Us About Achieving Success
$24.18
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
28 November 2017
Summary
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 quest…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473653665 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473653665 |
| Author: | Matthew Syed, Matthew Syed Consulting Ltd |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 28 November 2017 |
| Weight: | 41g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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About The Author
Matthew Syed
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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