Matthew Syed
生年: November 02, 1970 – Reading, Berkshire, England
Matthew Syed is a British author, journalist, and broadcaster whose work explores performance, mindset, learning from failure, and cognitive diversity. Best known for the bestselling books Bounce, Black Box Thinking, and Rebel Ideas, he has influenced business, education, and leadership conversations through widely read journalism and popular nonfiction.
経歴と著者の歩み
Matthew Syed’s path to authorship began far from the literary world. Born in Reading in 1970 to a Pakistani father and Welsh mother, he left school at sixteen to focus on table tennis, taught himself A levels between training sessions, and then went to Balliol College, Oxford, to study philosophy, politics and economics, graduating with a first-class degree in 1995. By then he had already represented Great Britain at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and was rising toward a long spell as the British table-tennis number one, later adding three Commonwealth Championship singles titles. One of the decisive turning points in his life came after the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where his own experience of performing poorly under pressure pushed him to examine how excellence, failure, and learning really work. ((https://www.matthewsyed.co.uk/about-matthew/))
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"Matthew Syed has assembled a compelling base of evidence from a wide range of scientists"
— Tim Harford ((
"Matthew Syed excels in drawing together disparate stories and examples into an interesting narrative"
— TES ((
"Matthew Syed's first book for children, You Are Awesome, was a massive hit"
— The Independent ((
"Matthew Syed has issued a stirring call to revolutionise how we think about success"
— Daniel Pink ((
"Matthew Syed is one of the world’s most influential thinkers in high performance and cultural change"
— HR Magazine ((
"Children's nonfiction has seldom looked better and sales are soaring, led by Matthew Syed's You Are Awesome"
— The Guardian ((
"Retrieval was Matthew Syed's forte when he was England's number one table tennis player"
— Howard Jacobson ((
"Matthew Syed is a writer who takes readers beneath the surface of the news cycle and into deeper trends shaping the world"
— The Press Awards ((
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