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The drive to be the fittest has always been at the core of how we understand ourselves from Sun Tzu and Machiavelli to Adam Smith and Darwin, but how important is the competitive instinct in our everyday lives, and how can understanding it make us better at what we do?
Adaptive competitiveness is much more that wanting to beat a rival. It's a precise combination of nature and nurture; your biology and psychology in a war for control. Whether you are a student peaking for your final exams, or a negotiator securing an incredible deal, a soldier surviving an ambush or an Olympic athlete striving for gold it's the right conditions that make a winner.
Studying competitive arenas from the workplace, the stock market, sport, politics, the military and schools, and using the latest findings in genetics, neuroscience and behavioural psychology, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman unveil the astounding, often counter-intuitive truths about how we compete and the crucial ingredients that sometimes stand between winning and losing.
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The drive to be the fittest has always been at the core of how we understand ourselves from Sun Tzu and Machiavelli to Adam Smith and Darwin, but how important is the competitive instinct in our everyday lives, and how can understanding it make us better at what we do?
Adaptive competitiveness is much more that wanting to beat a rival. It's a precise combination of nature and nurture; your biology and psychology in a war for control. Whether you are a student peaking for your final exams, or a negotiator securing an incredible deal, a soldier surviving an ambush or an Olympic athlete striving for gold it's the right conditions that make a winner.
Studying competitive arenas from the workplace, the stock market, sport, politics, the military and schools, and using the latest findings in genetics, neuroscience and behavioural psychology, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman unveil the astounding, often counter-intuitive truths about how we compete and the crucial ingredients that sometimes stand between winning and losing.
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"Fascinating ... Bronson and Merryman, the award-winning authors of the 2011 bestseller NurtureShock, clearly and cogently explain why, physiologically, some of us are at our best when it counts while others choke." (San Francisco Chronicle)
"Terrific" (Daniel Coyle, author of Talent Code)
"Intriguing" (Booklist)
"Illuminating and entertaining" (Kirkus Review)
"Bronson and Merryman’s investigation will have folks rethinking the impulse to win at work and play" (Publisher's Weekly)
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"Terrific" (Daniel Coyle, author of Talent Code)
"Intriguing" (Booklist)
"Illuminating and entertaining" (Kirkus Review)
"Bronson and Merryman’s investigation will have folks rethinking the impulse to win at work and play" (Publisher's Weekly)
The psychology and science behind our competitive drive by the New York Times number one bestselling author
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- PublisherEbury Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0091951569
- ISBN 13 9780091951566
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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