Recipe of the success of the writer Matthew Syed

Hidden reasons for success

In his book "Science success»Matthew Syed analyzes the factors affecting the success of outstanding athletes and artists (among them Mozart and Picasso, Beckham and Federer). First, he recalls the popular theory that described in the book "Geniuses and outsiders"Malcolm Gladwell (Malcolm Gladwell). Gladwell believes that many have succeeded not because of talent, but because of the environment in which they grew up.

We believe that outstanding people are making all their own. But in fact, their success is strongly influenced by the hidden advantages and unique features that allow them to learn, work hard and see the world as others can not.

Malcolm Gladwell

By studying the life and work of the masters of their craft, the following is noted. Firstly, a certain origin and related opportunities, as mentioned above. Second, a huge amount of time and effort spent on the conscious practice. Even so, some of the rules will inevitably favor one and obstruct others.

May serve as an illustration of the relative age effect, which manifests itself, for example, when typing in the children's sports teams. Imagine that your child is playing on the football team, all of whose members were born in the same year. However, the one who was born in January, will be almost annual advantage over those born in December. And at this stage of physical development of the year - it's almost a lifetime.

Month of birth - one of the underlying factors that determine the success and failure. These factors make it possible to seriously practiced. Or, conversely, deny such a possibility. In this case, no talent will not help.

Matthew Syed

Practice

So, if you have the time and opportunity to do practice, you have already overcome the first line. Now we need to understand what will help you achieve the best results.

Correct practice:

1. Help to acquire the skills that will accelerate and automate the process of work.
2. Make always learn something new and to stay focused.

Let's look at the first point in more detail. Imagine that you were asked to look at once set RAOBONAAYAKCHS letters and repeat it, not peeping. It is quite difficult. It is believed that our brain can only remember once seven subjects, and now there are 12.

Now change the letters in places and get the phrase "black dog." The letters are the same, but they are built intelligently, and remember them more easily. Even if you were able to keep in the memory of the letters in the first example, it is much easier to play them in the second case.

It is through this skill (Division into blocks of information that helps you remember it) those whom we considered a master of his craft, achieve amazing results. Here's how it describes Starks Janet (Janet Starkes), a professor of kinesiology of McMaster University:

Recognition of familiar scenarios and sharing of information into meaningful units and templates speeds up the workflow.

Unfortunately, this can not be learned by the book, the skill comes only with experience. It will not work if you'll just spend a lot of time on the job: you have to constantly focus to learn to see the patterns.

That is why in many professions the time spent little to do with the quality of work. One experience, if it is not backed up by proper concentration, is not a guarantee of excellence.

Matthew Syed

So, if you want to remember something, you have to be difficult. Research in various fields of knowledge confirm that we are professionals, just working on what is given to us with difficulty, or the fact that we all can do.

Of course, this does not mean that support some skills are required time and effort. But if you want to develop, you need to strain.

We achieve first-class results, as committed to the goal just outside our reach, but vividly imagine how to overcome this distance. After some time, thanks to the numerous repetitions and concentration, the distance disappear altogether and we will have a new goal.

Matthew Syed

However, the results can be achieved only if you made a conscious decision to devote himself to a particular case. You just need to give myself the cause, not because they told parents or teachers, but because you want to do so. Psychologists call this internal motivation. It is often not enough for children who are beginning to do something too soon, or those who are too forced. Without internal motivation you will not move to mastery, and to emotional exhaustion.

conclusions

In theory, we can all become outstanding musicians or athletes. But if you want to succeed, you must understand that you will have to delve deeply into the business for many years and work hard. Be prepared for a lot of obstacles. It's unavoidable. Only obstacles to help us grow and learn something new.

In addition, you must have the intrinsic motivation, because the path will be long, and if you can not motivate yourself, you never will achieve its goals. A role will also play luck and genes.

Fortunately, even if you focus only on what you can control the results you still will enjoy.