I didn’t get much ‘serious’ reading done over the holidays. Mainly because I managed to catch shingles somewhere along the line and didn’t fancy anything heavier than Georgette Heyer.

Still, ‘Bounce – the myth of talent and the power of practice‘ by Matthew Syed, was a great find. It’s not a new book, but it was new to me.

In it, Syed unpacks what’s actually going on as we internalise knowledge and build expertise through practice – of the right kind.

Most of the discussion in the book is around sports, but the thinking applies equally to other fields, and also reminded me of much of what Kathy Sierra talks about in ‘Badass: Making users awesome‘.

It really got me thinking.

About how anyone can achieve excellence if they want it, and they have access to the right kind of practice, and about how to build the ‘right kind of practice’ into what I do for my clients, so they can become genuinely employee-run, as well as employee-owned.

Because it’s Discipline that makes Daring possible.