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Bounce…   By  Dr. Uppuluri Krishna Murty

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The dignitaries, Ladies and Gentlemen… More Importantly, Parents and Grandparents in You  A Very Happy Good Morning to You. This impressive gathering is awe-inspiring… It is going to be quite a challenge, as I could easily see, to address you…

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Milkha, Anand, Usha, Chopra, Gowda, Batra, Dhyan Chand, Malliswari, Saina, Pallikal, Deepika Kumari, Vijayan, Team India Hockey, Bindra

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Our sincere apologies for  overlooking some greats…

Ajmer Singh, Khajan Singh Tokas, Geeth Sethi, Levy Pinto, Prakash, Inder Singh, K D Jhadav, Mir Sultan Khan, Jimmy George, Gurubachan Singh Randhawa…

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Today I shall introduce to you an interesting Book “Bounce” by Mathew Syed And discuss a few important yet very simple concepts that destroy many a myth

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It is  well-known that it  is  easier  to  ‘imprint’  on a kid’s mind . Or  it is easier to fix  ‘indelibly’  or  ‘permanently’   in the minds of  children what one wants to fix.  For  this early exposure  and sustained attention are the  key  ingredients. The aim of this talk is to drive home this point

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Source Material:  Title of the book:  “Bounce  –  The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice How  Champions Are Made”

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Author:   Mathew Syed, Commonwealth Table Tennis Champion He  was a defensive style  TT player  known for  his tenacity  and fighting qualities. He  first  had  excelled as a sportsperson, a Table Tennis Star, at the highest level. Then  he made his mark as a journalist and author.  And  to top it  all,  he ran for a public office and was an elected peoples’ representative in a country to which he was an immigrant .   This is a must read book

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Why we should take examples from the field of sports for driving home a concept you all know very  well - that hard work pays? You may ask . Because Sport  is an emerging field in India . Sportsmen and Sportswomen are coming up as brand ambassodors and Icons . Sport is something natural to mankind…in one form or other… Children look up to them  Sportspersons with  star-filled eyes .

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It is easy to identify oneself with a vibrant  sportsperson  who has visibility .   A sports person radiates confidence . Someone asked Olympic Gold medallist Chopra as to he is copying whom in sporting a long hair…Pat came the reply why I need someone else to copy? I groom myself as per my taste.. A Sportsperson has an aura of  invincibility.  There is  very little  fake about  him or her … So while my examples are mainly from the field of sport my aim is to drive home the point  that: Practice Makes One Perfect 99% of the success  comes  from  perseverance, perspiration and persistence.

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While some are probably endowed with something called “GENIUS ”. After all, I am no authority to say that Genius does not exist… And  they, the “Geniuses”,  can “apparently” do things easily and  effortlessly, learn quite fast, but no Genius can achieve anything without efforts. Mark the word “Apparent ” It is  an Early Start ,  unwavering Dedication ,  Right  Gurus, and  Sustained  hard work coupled with love for a domain of knowledge or skill that sets a Champion  apart  from others.

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Champion:    The Definition of a champion - A Champion is :   A remarkable person   A winner of a tournament   A winner of a show   A supreme winner in a  contest, examination, competition, and so on   A hero or a  warrior or fighter   A person who personifies  excellence

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Champions are there in all the areas of human endeavour.    Determined  persons are attracted to pursue certain lines of activity based on what is valued in their locale or family or society.   Example: Earlier  there was an unending stream of tear away fast bowlers emerging from West Indies. Now the flow  has,  what it looks  like,  dried up…   But the youth  there these days are  attracted to something else ... May be Basketball or Track and Field

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This book “Bounce” is about “How Champions Are Made” This books draws up on the case studies of Champions from various disciplines; academics, medicine, sports, performing arts, and various others.  It conclusively proves that champions emerge from sustained practice.  Champions are not automatically born. Champions are made… It only proves that 99% is Perseverance and 1% is Talent or Genius as the famous scientist Thomas Edison had said earlier This phenomenon is summarized in a numerical form as the: 10000 Hours rule…or 10000 Hours of effort spread over years with an early start to boot

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The Talent Myth – The hidden logic of success Access to facilities Workouts, and practice partners, group studies Access to right Gurus or Coaches in the formative years. Healthy and sufficiently challenging Competition Inborn / nature versus acquired / nurture

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Opportunity is necessary to succeed but is not sufficient Francis Galton – Hereditary Genius? It is acquired and is not in the DNA What is talent: The experiment by Anders Ericson at the Florida University – on violinists Purposeful practice is the only factor behind the success.

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The 10000 Hours rule – 3 Hours practice per day over 10 years to gain world class expertise in complex tasks.    Child Prodigies have compressed high quantities of practice in to a small period and benefited. Jack Nicklaus, the all time best golfer said:  The only factor behind success is practice. Cognitive neuroscience says that only practice matters. Quality and Quantity of practice: Merely Practicing a trade or working in an area of specialization aimlessly is of no use. Quality is more important..

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Talent is overrated –   Results are the end products of a long process and obsession / passion Pattern recognition abilities Kind of Extra-sensory perception:  When one works on a subject for long, long Hours, he or she develops some kind of extra sensory perception. To outsiders or on lookers it appears to be the hallmark of genius.  It is in reality not so. It is merely an outcome of sustained practice.

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Miraculous Children: Or Child Prodigies… Gary Kasparov – Chess The greatest Chess Player ever started at 4. W. A. Mozart – Piano (Geoff Colvin), Father Leopold Mozart, Teacher par excellence, Genius explained. I believe he started it all at 1 and half years. Tiger Woods, the youngest golfer to win the US Masters. Started practice at the age of 1! Started competing from the age of 2 in Golf Tournaments.

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The Williams Sisters – Tennis.  Venus started practice at 4. Competed at 4 and a half. The quest for excellence in Williams sisters was ignited when their father started looking for avenues for sports scholarships. He was short of funds.  He had realized then that sport is a short cut to rewards provided you excel. He realized that sport is a ladder to a great and financially secure future.

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Football: David Beckham once famously said “My secret is practice”. Andre Agassi – Tennis: Tried to hit 2500 balls every day so that he could hit 1000000 balls per year.  He realized that no one can beat you if you practice at that level.  He looked like beatable from the perspective of height, power, build and other visible things in an athlete.  Many attribute success to the so called talent.  But Agassi reached the very zenith.

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Encourage training without forcing the same up on the child.  For a child to get an imprint of the skill-set apart from an early start a genuine fondness for the area is necessary.  If a child is doing the routines for satisfying an exploitative parent, there is no use. It could be counterproductive. Motivate to practice with passion to avoid burnout.  Practice under compulsion or excessive coercion leads to burnout.  A Tale of three sisters: Laszlo Polgar & Klara and their children: Susan, Sofia, and Judith.

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Sarah Flannery: In Code [Book] – the Mathematical genius. In our country we have our own examples of people succeeding in various disciplines through an early start and dedicated efforts. The Khadilkar Sisters – Rohini, Vasanti, Jayashree – all top class Chess players – in fact the first generation. We get, these days, news of siblings from modest and the unlikeliest of backgrounds working hard and passing the mother of all examinations – The Civil Services Examination… There are any number of examples.

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Examples from Industry: Many entrepreneurs from the IT, Pharma, and Education Fields have made it big…The Unicorns…I think it is a nick-name for a 1 Billion Company…  The Path to Excellence: The power of practice Absent minded practice does not help Deep application Is required Merely for socialization does no help.

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Work at what you cannot do to become an expert Do not do on auto pilot. Engage and concentrate. Train Longer Train Smarter Push the envelope …Push yourself to the limits…

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10000 Hour rule and brain transformation;  Purposeful Practice,  Knowledge escalates,  Performance Soars,  Body and mind can be altered with practice Mysterious Sparks and Life-Changing Mindsets

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The Paradoxes of the mind: The Placebo Effect The Curse of Choking and how to avoid it.

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Distractions: Drugs in Sport, Body Builders, Mike Johnson, and the Future… Nature versus nurture: Are natives of some countries or people of some races or people who use some languages superior to others… It does not appear to be. It is merely a reflection of the fact that: In some societies some pursuits are valued because of the potential for commercial success or long ingrained cultural values In some societies certain fields are recognized traditionally even though there is no scope for financial gains of corresponding level.

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Dear friends   We have come to the  the end of the first part of the talk  I want you all to remember one thing: “The 10000” Hour Rule. Some may wonder what value I delivered today…My talk may look repetitive…But then if we clearly remember a few fundamentals we can go far… Even if 1% of this gathering believes in that I would have made my day… Thanks and Good Luck

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Tail Piece: The objective of my talk is to motivate you people. In age some of your are Parents and some of you are Grandparents So I have taken examples from the older generations.  Current Achievers are work in progress…We wish them good luck and look forward their future achievements… But the pursuit of goals can be very demanding and draining. Never push a child to achieve your dreams.

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My objective is not to preach that you force your children to become sportspersons. Certainly not. Let a Child have his goals and follow them if required… Here a poem from the legendary poet Kahlil Gibran makes sense and an interesting reading

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On Children
Kahlil Gibran
Your diildren are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

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You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and Ile bends you with Ilis might
that Ilis arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as Ile loves the arrow that flies,
so Ile loves also the bow that is stable.

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