Notes

Chapter 1: The secret is not a secret

Tanser, T. More Fire: How to Run the Kenyan Way (Westholme Publishing, 2008).

Ash, G.I., Scott, R.A., Deason, M., Dawson, T.A., Wolde, B., Bekele, Z., Teka, S. and Pitsiladis, Y.P. ‘No Association between ACE Gene Variation and Endurance Athlete Status in Ethiopians’ Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (2011).

Scott, R.A. et al. ‘ACTN3 and ACE genotypes in elite Jamaican and US sprinters’ Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (2010).

Fudge, B.W., Easton, C., Kingsmore, D., Kiplamai, F.K., Onywera, V.O., Westerterp, K.R., Kayser, B., Noakes, T.D. and Pitsiladis, Y.P. ‘Elite Kenyan endurance runners are hydrated day-to-day with ad libitum fluid intake’ Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (2008).

Fudge, B.W., Westerterp, K.R., Kiplamai, F.K., Onywera, V.O., Boit, M.K., Kayser, B. and Pitsiladis, Y.P. ‘Evidence of negative energy balance using doubly labelled water in elite Kenyan endurance runners prior to competition’ British Journal of Nutrition (2006).

Saltin, B., Kim, C.K., Terrados, N., Larsen, H., Svedenhag, J. and Rolf, C.J. ‘Morphology, enzyme activities and buffer capacity in leg muscles of Kenyan and Scandinavian runners’ Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports (1995).

Saltin, B., Larsen, H., Terrados, N., Bangsbo, J., Bak, T., Kim, C.K., Svedenhag, J. and Rolf, C.J. ‘Aerobic exercise capacity at sea level and at altitude in Kenyan boys, junior and senior runners compared with Scandinavian runners’ Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports (1995).

Timmons, J.A., Knudsen, S., Rankinen, T., et al. ‘Using molecular classification to predict gains in maximal aerobic capacity following endurance exercise training in humans’ J. Applied Physiology (2010).

Rankinen, T., Roth, S.M., Bray, M.S., Loos, R.J., Peruse, L., Wolfarth, B., Hagberg, J.M. and Bouchard, C. ‘Advances in exercise, fitness, and performance genomics’ Medical Science Sports Exercise (2010).

Bouchard, C. ‘Genomic predictors of trainability’ Experimental Physiology (2011).

Flynn, J.R. What is Intelligence? (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Flynn, J.R. Asian Americans – Achievement Beyond IQ (Routledge, 1991).

Dawkins, R. The Selfish Gene (Oxford University Press, 1976).

Doll, J. and Mayr, U. Intelligence and Achievement in Chess – A Study of Chess Masters (Psychologische Beitrage, 1997).

Hudsom, L. Contrary Imaginations – A Psychological Study of the English Schoolboy (Penguin, 1967).

Chapter 2: What you see is not what you get

Anders, G. The Rare Find – Spotting Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else (Penguin, 2011).

Helsen, W.F., Van Winckel, J. and Williams, M. The Relative Age Effect in Youth Soccer Across Europe (2004).

Robinson, K. The Element – How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (Penguin, 2010).

Gladwell, M. What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures (Penguin, 2009).

Gallway, T. The Inner Game of Work (Random House, 1999).

Charan, R. and Conaty, B. The Talent Masters – Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers (Random House, 2010).

Lewis, M. Moneyball – The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (Norton, 2004).

Duckworth, A., Quinn, P. and Tsukayama, E. ‘The roles of IQ and self-control in predicting standardized achievement test scores and report card grades’ Journal of Educational Psychology (2011).

Barnsley, R. ‘The Relative Age Effect in Football’ International Review for the Sociology of Sport (1992).

Barnsley, R. and Thompson, A.H. ‘Hockey success and birth date: The relative age effect revisited’ International Review for the Sociology of Sport (2010).

Chapter 3: Start early or die soon

Ericsson, K.A. Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Chi, M.T.H. and Ceci, S.J. ‘Content knowledge: it’s role, representation, and restructuring in memory development’ Advances in Child Development (1987).

Ericsson, K.A. ‘Exceptional memorizers: made, not born’ Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2003).

Ericsson, K.A., The influence of experience and deliberate practice on the development of superior expert performance (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Ericsson, K.A., Charness, N. ‘Expert performance: its structure and acquisition’ American Psychologist (1994).

Ericsson, K.A. ‘Attaining excellence through deliberate practice: insights from the study of expert performance’ The Pursuit of Excellence in Education (1994).

Ericsson, K.A. ‘Deliberate practice and the acquisition and maintenance of expert performance in medicine and related domains’ Academic Medicine (2004).

Lehmann, A.C. and Ericsson, K.A. The historical development of domains of expertise: performance standards and innovations in music (Oxford University Press, 1994).

Sloboda, J.A., Davidson, J.W., Michael, J., Howe, A. and Moore, D.G. ‘The role of practice in development of performing musicians’ British Journal of Psychology (1996).

De Groot, A.D. Thought and Choice in Chess (Mouton, 1946).

Levitin, D.J. This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession (Dutton, 2006).

Howe, M.J.A. Genius Explained (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Morris, J.M. Mozart as a Working Stiff (Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Woods, E. and McDaniel, P. Training a Tiger: a Father’s Guide to Raising a Winner in Both Golf and Life (HarperCollins, 1997).

Howe, M.J.A. The Psychology of Human Learning (1980), The Early Lives of Child Prodigies (1993), Gifts, Talents and Natural Abilities: an Explanatory Mythology (1990).

Klawans, H.L. Why Michael Couldn’t Hit (W.H. Freeman, 1996).

Rooney, W. My Story So Far (HarperSport, 2006).

Iyengar, S. ‘How much choice is too much? Determinants of individual contributions’ Pension Design and Structure: New Lessons from Behavioral Finance (2004).

Iyengar, S. and DeVoe, S. Rethinking the Value of Choice: Considering Cultural Mediators of Intrinsic Motivation In Cross-Cultural Differences in Perspectives on the Self (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003).

Iyengar, S. and Lepper, M.R. ‘Choice and its consequences: on the costs and benefits of self-determination in self and motivation’ Emerging Psychological Perspectives (2002).

Loehr, J., Schwartz, T. The Power of Full Engagement (Simon & Schuster, 2004).

Chapter 4: We’re all quitters

Onywera, V.O., Scott, R.A., Boit, M.K. and Pitsiladis, Y. Kenyan Endurance Runners Journal of Sports Sciences (2006).

Christensen, D.L. Washindi – Runners from Kalendjin (Frydenlund Publishing, 2000).

Tanser, T. More Fire: How to Run the Kenyan Way (Westholme Publishing, 2008).

Klopfer, B. Psychological Variables in Human Cancer Journal of Projective Techniques (1957).

Syed, M. Bounce – How Champions are Made (Fourth Estate, 2011).

Isaac, A. R. ‘Mental practice – does it work in the field?’ The Sport Psychologist (1992).

Martin, K.A. and Hall, C.R. ‘Using mental imagery to enhance intrinsic motivation’ Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology (1995).

Murphy, S. ‘Models of imagery in sport psychology’ Journal of Mental Imagery (1990).

Orlick, T., Zitzelsberger, L., Li-Wei, Z. and Qi-wei, M. ‘The effect of mental-imagery training on performance enhancement with 7–10-year-old children’ The Sports Psychologist (1992).

Pavio, A. ‘Cognitive and Motivational Functions of Imagery in Human Performance’ Journal of Applied Sports Science (1982).

Pascual-Leone A. ‘The Brain that Plays Music and is Changed by It’ The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music (2003).

Noakes, T. Lore of Running (Human Kinetics Europe Ltd, 2002).

Samuele M., Marcora, W.S. and Manning, V. ‘Mental fatigue impairs physical performance in humans’ Applied Physiology (2009).

Amann, M., Hopkins, W.G. and Marcora, S.M. ‘Similar sensitivity of time to exhaustion and time-trial time to changes in endurance’ Medical Science Sports Exercise (2008).

Marcora, S.M., Bosio, A. and de Morree, H.M. ‘Locomotor muscle fatigue increases cardiorespiratory responses and reduces performance during intense cycling exercise independently from metabolic stress’ Journal of Applied Physiology (2008).

Chapter 5: Success is about mindset, not facilities

Steerbberg, R.J. How Practical and Creative Intelligence Determine Success in Life (Plume, 1997).

Ericsson, K. A., Whyte, J. and Ward, P. ‘Expert performance in nursing: Reviewing research on expertise in nursing within the framework of the expert-performance approach’ Advances in Nursing Science (2007).

Ericsson, K.A. ‘An expert-performance perspective on medical expertise: Study superior clinical performance rather than experienced clinicians’ Medical Education (2007).

Bond, W., Kuhn, G., Binstadt E., Quirk, M., Wu, T., Tews, M., Dev, P. and Ericsson, K.A. ‘The use of simulation in the development of individual cognitive expertise in emergency medicine’ Academic Emergency Medicine (2008).

Ericsson, K.A. ‘Deliberate practice and acquisition of expert performance: a general overview’ Academic Emergency Medicine (2008).

Krampe, R.T. and Ericsson, K.A. ‘Maintaining excellence: Deliberate practice and elite performance in young and older pianists’ Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006).

Choudhry, N.K., Fletcher, R.H. and Soumerai, S.B. ‘Systematic review: the relationship between clinical experience and quality of healthcare’ Annals of Internal Medicine (2005).

Camerer, C.F. and Johnson, E.J. How Can Experts Know So Much and Predict So Badly? (The Process-performance In Expert Judgement, 1991).

Ericsson, K.A., Smith, J. Toward a General Theory of Expertise: Prospects and Limits (Cambridge University Press, 1991).

Holm, S. Hojdhoppare (Wahlström & Widstrand, 2005)

Csikszentmihalyis, M. Flow – The Psychology of Optimal Experience (HarperCollins, 2008).

Restak, R. The New Brain: How the Modern Age is Rewiring Your Mind (Rodale, 2003).

Goldsmith, M. What Got You There Won’t Get You There (Hyperion, 2007).

Dweck, C. Mindset – The New Psychology of Success (Random House, 2006).

Collins, J. How The Mighty Fall – And Why Some Companies Never Give In (Random House, 2009).

Kotter, J.P. A Sense of Urgency (Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008).

Conant, D.R. and Norgaard, M. Touchpoints – Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments (John Wiley & Sons, 2011).

Sengupta, K., Abdel-Hamid, T.K. and Van Wassenhove, L.N. The Experience Trap (Harvard Business Review, 2008).

Pink, D. Drive – The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us (Canongate Books, 2010).

Chapter 6: Godfathers

Robinson, K. The Element – How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (Penguins, 2010).

Chapter 7: Not pushing your kids is irresponsible

Bloom, B.S. Developing Talent in Young People (Ballantine Books, 1985).

Winner, E. and Gardner, H. ‘Fact, fiction, and fantasy in childhood’ New Directions for Child Development (1979).

Chapter 8: The hunger factor

Winner, E. The Rage to Master – the Decisive Role of Talent in the Visual Arts (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996).

Duckworth, A.L. ‘The significance of self-control’ The National Academy of Sciences (2011).

Duckworth, A., Kirby, T., Tsukayama, E., Berstein, H. and Ericsson, K. ‘Deliberate practice spells success: why grittier competitors triumph at the National Spelling Bee’ Social Psychological and Personality Science (2011).

Duckworth, A.L. and Quinn, P.D. ‘Development and validation of the Short Grit Scale (Grit-S)’ Journal of Personality Assessment (2009).

Duckworth, A.L., Peterson, C., Matthews, M.D. and Kelly, D.R. ‘Grit: perseverance and passion for long-term goals’ Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2007).

Duckworth, A.L. and Seligman, M.E.P. ‘Self-discipline outdoes IQ in predicting academic performance of adolescents’ Psychological Science (2005).

Duckworth, A.L., Steen, T.A. and Seligman, M.E.P. ‘Positive psychology in clinical practice’ Annual Review of Clinical Psychology (2005).

Winner, E. Gifted children: myths and realities (BasicBooks, 1997).

Terman, L. The Measurement of Intelligence (1916), The Use of Intelligence Tests (1916), Genetic Studies of Genius (Houghton Mifflin, 1925, 1947, 1959).

Renzulli, J.S. What Makes Giftedness? Re-examining a Definition (Phi Delta Kappa, 1978).

Renzulli, J.S. Schools for talent development: A practical plan for total school improvement (Creative Learning Press, 1994).

Walton, G. and Cohens, G. ‘Mere Belonging’ Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2007).

Frankl, V.E. Man’s Search for Meaning (Simon & Schuster, 1997).

Ariely, D., Kamenica, E. and Prelec, D. ‘Man’s search for meaning: the case of Legos’ Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2008).