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Matthew Syed is an award-winning journalist on the times, writing for both the sports pages and the comment pages.
He is a three-time Commonwealth table-tennis champion and competed in two Olympics.
He studied PPE at Balliol College Oxford where he was awarded a prize-winning first class degree.

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BOUNCE: HOW CHAMPIONS ARE MADE

Just what does it take to become the very best? Matthew Syed uncovers the "hidden logic of success" behind the careers of world-beaters from David Beckham and Serena Williams to Mozart and Picasso.

Looking at the latest in sports science, neuroscience, psychology and economics, Matthew reveals the idea of God-given talent to be a myth, and that the key to achieving greatness lies in hard work, and the right attitude and training.

Along the way Matthew explains how memory and inspiration prime our brains for success, why top sportsmen are able to see and perceive faster than the rest of us, and how genes are starting to matter - but not in the way you might think.

In Bounce, Matthew draws a new map of the road to the top.

Winners aren't born, they are made.

Talent is something you build yourself.

Also in the book:

- why one small street in Reading - Matthew's own - produced more table-tennis champions that the rest of Britain put together

- why one region of Kenya has produced so many of the world's great distance runners

- how a group of pigeons showed the role that superstition can play in success.

- how a Hungarian educationalist turned his daughters into three of the best chess players the world has ever seen.

- why Matthew "choked" at the Sydney Olympics, and how the greatest sportsmen are able to avoid this.
Matthew Syed

Matthew Syed is three-time Commonwealth table-tennis champion, an award-winning sports and comment writer for the Times, and has a prize-winning double-first class degree from Oxford University.