Bücher von David Epstein

Offers an exploration of athletic success. This book shows why some skills that we imagine are innate are not - like the bullet-fast reactions of a baseball player - and why other characteristics that we assume are entirely voluntary, like the motivation to practice, might in fact have important genetic components.

Playwright and screenwriter David Epstein presents a trilogy of three plays-Mahalo, Desperados, and Arky-tracing the story of an American family navigating a years-long crisis driven by mental illness. Harrowing, comic, and revealing, The Arky Trilogy movingly captures the twists and turns of life as experienced by one family among millions.CRITICAL PRAISE FOR THE ARKY TRILOGY "Moving, high-energy dramas of mental health, families, and urgent absurdity."-Publishers Weekly BookLife "The reader will be anxious to one day see one or all of these plays staged in a theater. Until then, these pages provide a suitable window into Arky's Crazyland. A suite of innovative and emotional dramas depicting an embattled family."-Kirkus Reviews"Mahalo is a masterpiece."-Robert Brustein, drama critic, Founding Director of the Yale Repertory Theatre and the American Repertory CompanyPRAISE FOR DAVID EPSTEIN'S PREVIOUS WORKS Wanted "A fine, lovely and lyric madness . . . and at last it restores the art of the musical to the Off-Broadway theatre. . . . It's that rare thing, a show that is as funny as it is provocative. I recommend it wholeheartedly."-Clive Barnes, New York Times "Love at first sight . . . Myth becomes cartoon, cartoon myth . . . Rooty-toot-toot gaiety!"-Walter Kerr, New York Times "Rousing Theatre!"-Douglas Watt, The Daily News Exact Change "I haven't laughed so much in a theater all year. With Epstein's blackish sense of humor and wry relish of the odd, his play fizzes with talent."-Benedict Nightingale, The Times of London "Chilling, brilliant . . . dialogue explosions propel the action through the roof."-Irving Wardle, The Independent on Sunday Palookaville"A sly, loping comedy . . . sweetly ironic with a skewed charm all its own."-Stephen Holden, The New York Times"Terrifically enjoyable . . . with a strong sense of style . . . impressive feature film debut of David Epstein."-Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal

Usian Bolt, Serena Williams und Michael Phelps - Ausnahmesportler, die jeder kennt, ganz gleich, ob sportbegeistert oder nicht. Doch was befähigt diese Menschen zu ihren Höchstleistungen? Genetische Besonderheit oder eiserne Willenskraft und knallhartes Training? Oder die Kombination aus allen dreien? David Epstein geht dieser kontroversen Frage um Erfolgsfaktoren und die sogenannte 10.000-Stunden-Regel nach, die besagt, man müsse nur so lange üben, um etwas zu beherrschen. Er führt Gespräche mit Wissenschaftlern, Olympiasiegern und Athleten und zwingt nicht nur Sportler dazu, die Natur des Erfolgs in allen Bereichen neu zu überdenken.

Spezialisierung sei der Schlüssel zum Erfolg, sagen viele Experten. Um Fähigkeiten, Instrumente oder Themengebiete zu beherrschen, müsse man früh anfangen und lange üben. David J. Epstein analysiert in seinem Bestseller Top-Performer in Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft, Ausnahmekünstler wie Vincent van Gogh und Profisportler wie Roger Federer oder Tiger Woods und belegt: Das ist eher die Ausnahme, denn die Regel! Generalisten legen vielleicht später los, dafür aber meist kreativer, agiler und mit Blick über den Tellerrand. Und haben letztlich Erfolg. Das Buch ist ein eindrucksvolles Plädoyer, wieder mehr Überblick zu wagen - und zu fördern!

The backdrop is WWII (Europe, 1939 - 1945). The episode, code named Op. Valkyrie aka ''The Revolution of 20 July 1944''. An English Glider Pilot, recouperating from wounds incurred on D-Day (06/06/44, is temporarily attached to a ''flight pool'' ferrying British Intellegence agents to the Continent. A few weeks before D-Day, the German Resistence (GR) movement, desperately seeking Western Allied support, approached the American OSS agent, A. Dulles, with a plan for the elimination of Hitler and a quick end to the war. It was ignored in London and Washington. The stumbling block was Unconditional Surrender (01/43) which loudly proclaimed: "All Germans are our Enemies." A few weeks after D-Day, he flys a Senior British agent to an urgent meeting in Holland, with a German General (GG), a prominent member of the Widerstand, whose formal arguments did not get very far, but the mere mention of the plight of ''hostage-Europe'' did. Why couldn''t the Widerstand see that this was the Aiies ''Achilles heel''? it was their trump card. They didn''t play it, so the Glider Pilot did. He is sold on the quest for a joint venture, but a legacy of real (or imaginary) double-crosses dogged Anglo-GR relations both before and during the war. Inexorably, he finds himself drawn into a veritable ''hornet''s nest'' of intrigue, surrounding what should have been the most decisive single operation of the war. Britain did not get it. At the very least, the Widerstrand was a ''tool'' for acheiving Allied war objectives. Britian cound not comprehend that it wasn''t just an Anglo-German affair, but that their was a third party that was anxiously awaiting the outcome of this meeting. The explosion that was to have toppled Nazism, imploaded on itself crushing the German Resistence movement abruptly terminating any hope of early liberation for ''hostage-Europe''. WWII Army Vet. PhD, Theoretical Nuclear Physics, NYU (1960). Worked on Submarine Nuclear Reactors & Anti-Submarine Warfare. Professor of Physics & Director of Oceanography, SUNY, Maritime College, 1964. Retired 1995. Avid student, Military History. Interested in WWII episode code named Op-Valkyrie; Anglo - German Resistance (GR) relations prior to and during the war. Book is part autobiography, part history, and part novel.