Endurance book forward by malcome glagweell12/14/2023 There's no mystery here: it's about numbers and it's about work. There are certain cultures where we like to think they have some innate advantage, but growing up there, baseball is a really, really big deal, and everyone puts an enormous amount of effort into it, and as a result, they produce a hugely disproportionate number of athletes in that model. You're exploiting 100% of the running potential.Īnd we see that elsewhere, like Canadian hockey players…Īnd you can say the same thing for Dominican infielders. They have a million, and if you have all those kids doing that kind of mileage, you're not only going to develop all the talent that's there, you're not gonna' miss any great runners. How many boys here run 12 miles a day?" Maybe 5,000, if that. I was a middle and long-distance runner, and Alberto Salazar said something to me recently-he said, "Why is it that the Kenyans dominate long-distance running the way they do?" There's all kinds of theories on genetics, and endurance, and he says, "Look, they have a million teenage boys running 10-12 miles a day. Do these ideas fly in the face of one another? Your book says success is often about circumstances. When you've put in that amount of time and effort, you're able to see a whole new range of possibilities. It's when you're very consciously zeroing in on what you're weak at and trying to correct it, rather than repeating what you've mastered.Īnd that leads to a Maravich saying, "You can't call that a travel, you've never seen it done before!" It's more than just practice, it's doing it in a very specific, focused way. In the 10,000 hours rule, psychologists call it deliberate practice. It's not just that Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan tend to work more than their peers-which is true-it's that when they work hard they work in a different way. So Tiger is but 30% born a made-to-golf genius? When I started this book I would have thought it was maybe 50/50, but now I think it's a lot more effort and a lot less natural talent. All sports fans have a rough breakdown in their heads of how each of those two things plays a role. Well, you have to start with something, but the question we always have is how much of the sports genius is innate and how much is acquired. Some say greatness and creativity in sports is more inspiration than the 10,000 hours of practice you prescribe in the book, but some of our most creative athletes-a Tiger Woods with the shots he can hit, or a Pete Maravich doing things we hadn't seen-are the most incessant practice players in history. It's a highly complex cognitive activity. Let's stop and acknowledge that football is not a sport for dumb jocks. If you hire a coach that has offensive schemes as complicated as calculus, then you better have the patience you'd have with those students. Yeah, you can't go into a math class and pronounce who the great students are after two weeks. Or if the Lions offensive players were calc majors… How can you, if you're Detroit, draft all these wide receivers and then give up on anything after a couple years, or call 'em busts, when it's far more about executing a system that takes years to master? You have to give them their work. We create offenses of such stunning complexity in the NFL, that it's impossible to truly judge anyone in their rookie season. A receiver! I don't think we take this into account. Andy Reid has said that with the offense he runs in Philadelphia, it takes a receiver three years to be comfortable in it. THE MAG: Based on this book, if I'm an owner, I should be the most patient one in sports, right? After all, the Beatles, as you write, played a ridiculous 1,200 gigs-a lifetime-before they became any good. Here, we chatted with the New Yorker writer about some of his interests, and ours. He even touched on, yes, the brilliance of Charles Barkley. Such as how Bill Walsh could make us re-think Joe Montana, or how Tiger Woods is more practice than inspiration. And though only one chapter in his new book, Outliers (Little Brown, $27.99), is committed entirely to the sporting discussion, he had a lot more to tell us. The author of iconic books Blink and The Tipping Point has no problems applying his theories to our realm. Malcolm Gladwell is a serious observer of sports. Malcolm Gladwell Talks Sports (And His New Book) With Us You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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