I don't think any sports are that wicked. I think because they're all rule bound. What Hogarth said is that tennis is more wicked than golf. Tennis is dynamic. You have to use so-called anticipatory skills where the sport is actually happening too fast for you to react to. So it's quite conceivable that had he not played soccer Steve Nash would not have been a superb NBA player. It just so happens that I was emailing with Steve Nash about this last week, Canadian royalty and Steve's a big soccer fan. France which just won the World Cup overhauled its development pipeline starting decades ago to incorporate this.
You know Malcolm Gladwell's “10,000-Hour Rule.” But did you know that, according to David Epstein, it doesn't work? That's what Epstein argues in his new book, “Range: Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World.” In this episode, Malcolm Gladwell talks with Epstein about why a broad range of experiences in life is actually the best way to find success.