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THE PROBLEMS WHICH MOST PERPLEX TENNIS PLAYERS ARE NOT those dealing with the proper way to swing a racket. Books and professionals giving this information abound. Nor do most players complain excessively about physical limitations. The most common complaint of sportsmen ringing down the corridors of the ages is, “It’s not that I don’t know what to

I didn’t know what the banks were doing by granting loans with insufficient collateral, but I thought as founder and major stakeholder of PSG I dare not sell any of my shares – what kind of example would that have set? The market would see on the news service Sens if PSG was up to something. Since I knew I would always be invested in PSG, I just cl

McCormack is quite certain that the practice of measuring a book’s potential “contribution,” rather than creating an artificial P&L that incorporated an overhead percentage, was a primary driver of St. Martin’s period of profitable title growth.

Eventual elites typically devote less time early on to deliberate practice in the activity in which they will eventually become experts. Instead, they undergo what researchers call a “sampling period.” They play a variety of sports, usually in an unstructured or lightly structured environment; they gain a range of physical proficiencies from which

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When Sloboda and a colleague conducted a study with students at a British boarding school that recruited from around the country—admission rested entirely on an audition—they were surprised to find that the students classified as exceptional by the school came from less musically active families compared to less accomplished students, did not start

Another common error in the psychology literature concerns what is called “mental accounting.” The Thorp, Kelly, and Shannon school of information theory requires that, for an investment strategy to be ergodic and eventually capture the return of the market, agents increase their risks as they are winning, but contract after losses, a technique cal