This is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, The Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon by L. Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers
This is Your Brain on
Sports: The Science of Underdogs, The Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn
from the T-Shirt Cannon by L. Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers
If this
title is at all intriguing to you, then you are probably a sports fan and in
that case you should definitely read this book. I am a huge sports fan and have
been for ages. I have my teams that I am utterly obsessed with, teams (and
players) that I cannot stand and I rave and rage at the TV during games. I
thought this book could be rather interesting and boy was it.
Wertheim
and Sommers uses each chapter to take a look at different behaviors of not just
sports fan, but athletes, coaches, and executives and examines them under the
guise of science. They look at different studies conducted around the world,
some of which were simple behavioral studies but others were directed strictly
to sports, and used those results to explore the topics at hand. Each chapter
is extremely interesting, well researched and thoroughly convincing in the way
the information is conveyed.
Beyond
anything else I was entertained by this book. It wasn’t what I expected. With
that title I honestly didn’t expect to get such a well thought out, well
researched book about how sports definitely impacts our behaviors. This was
really well done. If you aren’t into sports then this might not be as much of a
pull for you because a lot of these behaviors won’t make sense to you. They won’t
ring true. But if you are sports fan, you’ll see a bit of yourself or someone
else you know within this pages.
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