Bounce Syed

Ch. 1
Iceberg illusion: When we witness extraordinary feats of memory, we are witnessing the end product of
a process measured in years.
The explotation of advance information results in the time paradox where skilled performers seem to
have all the time in the world.
Recognition of familiar scenarios and the chunking of percpetual information into meaningful wholes
and patterns speeds up processes.
The development of motor expertise is inseperable from the development of perceptual expertise
(chunking patterns).
Experts confront situations with a rich, detailed, and elaborate conceptual scheme derived from many
years of experience. They can chunk the visual properties of the scene and comprehend its complex
dynamics often without understanding how.
Programs that are rich in general inference methods but poor in domain specific knowledge can behave
expertly on almost no tasks.
Expert decision making circumvents combinatorial explosion via advanced pattern recognition.
Ch. 3
Creative innovation emerges from the rigors of purposeful practice.
Ch. 5
Doubt is the fundamental cause of error in sports.
To eliminate doubt: remember to associate with a seemingly difficult task some action that is simple,
prefereably one that has never failed. No room left to associate with failure.
World class performers take mental manipulations to an extreme. They ratchet up optimism at the point
of performance; to mold evidence to fit their beliefs; to activate doublethink.
Ch 6.
Migration from explicit to the implicit system has two advantages.
1. Enables the intergration of various parts of a complex skill into one fluent whole- motor
chunking. Impossible at the conscious level because there are too many interconnecting
variables for the conscious mind to handle.
2. Frees up attention to focus on higher level aspects of the skill such as tactics and strategy.
The problem becomes too much focus, not lack of focus.

Conscious monitoring disrupts the smooth working of the implicit system.

Sequence and timing is fragmented.
On simple tasks, the tendency to slow down and take conscious control confers huge advantages . The
opposite is true when executing a complex task.
Choking is then switching from implicit to explicit control. Only the expert has the capacity to choke;
someone who has had time to automate the skill.
IF you have a tendency to choke, tell yourself before hand that the event really doesnt matter.
Bottom up sensory information is overridden by top down knowledge.
Non experts lack the top down knowledge to construct meaning from our senses.
Most people have the same amount of bandwidth available for conscious processing. But experts create
spare capacity by automating perceptual and motor programs.
Warnings systems are only as good as the attentional resources of the people.