Psychological Diversity: Matthew Syed
A New Way of Being
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The Importance of Diversity in Sport
Sport is a metaphor for life, but sometimes it can be overdone. One of the big triggers for writing my first book was choking at the Olympic Games in Sydney. There are themes that emerge from sport that have a much broader relevance. I wanted to try and understand when and how diversity mattered. But to acknowledge there are many circumstances in which certain types of diversity don't matter and can actively undermine performance. When you optimize the right kind of diversity in the rightkind of way, the uplift in what I call the collective intelligence of groups is monumental.
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