#314 Ashley Merryman, 2x NYT Bestselling Author on the Science of Winning and Losing, Coaching Men vs Women, Challenge vs Threat Environments, and How to Give Feedback to Your Athletes
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Top Dog, the Science of Winning and Losing
Top Dog is a book about the science of winning and losing. The author says he was inspired by researcher Steve Garcia, who studies competition. "I thought it was a really exciting opportunity to sort of change people's understanding of what competition is," David Frum says.
Ashley Merryman (www.AshleyMerryman.com) changes the world's dialogue. She finds the science essential to understanding what makes people tick—what motivates us, what inspires us—from individual quirks to institutional phenomena. Then she explains how to use these insights to transform our lives. The best place to get them is to subscribe to her newly reborn newsletter www.thesherwoodreport.com
Her book NurtureShock, co-authored with Po Bronson, has become one of the most influential books about children ever published. On the New York Times bestseller list for more than six months and an Amazon Top Nonfiction 100 book for over a year, it has been translated into 20 languages.
Their follow-up, Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing, was another instant New York Times bestseller with foreign translations around the world. Since its publication, Top Dog has revolutionized the world of elite performance. Coaches of professional sports carry it in their bags. Olympians have described themselves as "Top Dog athletes."
In addition to cover stories and more for Newsweek and New York, Merryman has had bylines in the New York Times, Time, the Washington Post, CNN.com, the Guardian, ESPN Magazine, and others. Her media appearances include: CNN's Anderson Cooper 360; Fox and Friends; CBS This Morning; @KatieCouric; John Stossel; ESPN's Outside the Lines; HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel; Red Bull's Visions of Greatness; BBC's World News and Sports Hour; and NPR's On Point. She is also a contributor to Chronicle Books' bestselling 642 Things to Write About. (And she once delighted "Mr. Wonderful" Kevin O'Leary with an on-air explanation of how science could predict his success, while Stephen Colbert devoted a segment of The Colbert Report to her take on kids and competition.)
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