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A great book � should be compulsory reading all parents and teachers. It has changed the way I think about encouraging my children and work teammates � praising their efforts and hard work rather than their innate "skill". As an advisor to owner- managed businesses, I see the 10,000 hour/10 year experience rule being lived out in many ways. For example most professionals spend their 20s and early 30s mastering the technical aspects of their profession, and the next decade mastering management and business skills so that by the mid to late 40s they are at the height of their powers. This book could be called The T-Myth (with apologies to Michael Gerber, author of The E-Myth)- the T standing for talent of course. It explains in scientific terms of some of the principles set out by Gerber in his book and it has helped me to understand why some of my most successful clients have done so well, often after years of struggling and learning from their mistakes (i.e. "purposeful practice" in Syed's words).
The second half of the book takes in other areas affecting performance, e.g. the placebo effect, avoiding "choking", drug use in sport and the final explains the apparent superiority of black runners in a very insightful way, showing how easily we fall prey to flawed generalisations.