A batch of the best highlights from what Christian's read, .
Overemphasising competition in the early phases of training will always cause shortcomings in athletic abilities later in an athlete's career' (Balyi & Hamilton, 2004), the ASM divides the different phases of motor development as follows:
A mover who is having fun;
A multifaceted good mover;
A multifaceted good mover becomes an athlete;
the athlete develops a specialization;
the athlete becomes the specialist;
and the specialist is an athlete.
The Athletic Skills Model
René Wormhoudt, Geert J.P. Savelsbergh, Jan Willem Teunissen, Keith Davids
It turns out that people are not all that good at predicting how they will feel in a decade, and neither can they make themselves feel an emotion in perpetuity simply by promising to do so.
Sacred Cows
Danielle Teller and Astro Teller
Gelada baboons, for example, might be able to keep their fur clean with only 30 minutes of social grooming every day, but instead they spend 120 minutes. (This seems similar to a human showering four times a day.) Only politics explains why the geladas spend those additional, seemingly unnecessary 90 minutes.