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"You gotta get it . . . [a] fascinating topic that we all deal with on a daily basis."―Fox & Friends"A terrifically useful book about the science of competition (which you should read right now)."―Daniel Coyle, author of The Talent Code"Cutting-edge science behind life's triumphs and failures . . . insight from politics, finance, science, sports and economics to tip the odds in your favor."―NPR.com"Remarkable . . . this book will help you rise to the occasion . . . wildly counterintuitive."―San Francisco Chronicle (Literary Pick)"Fiction may lay claim to imagination, but works such as TOP DOG are what push the envelope of our reality . . . stunning . . . Prepare to delve into the external factors and personal dynamos that make you who you are."―Coffin Factory"I tell my staff, I tell my friends-you must read TOP DOG. I was a good poker player before I read it. Now, I'm even better."―Phil Gordon, World Poker Tour Champion, author, and CEO of Jawfish Games"Accessible for fans of pop science, yet substantial enough to have practical applications . . . will have folks rethinking the impulse to win at work and play."―Publishers Weekly"An easy, highly satisfying read . . . surprising . . . fascinating. Grade: A."―AVClub.com"There is intense competition in just about every aspect of life . . . There's not an app for that, yet, but there is a book: TOP DOG . . . a good primer on the behaviors that can sink or lift us in a competitive world."―Seattle Times"Illuminating and entertaining . . . surprising insights."―Kirkus
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About the Author
Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman's NurtureShock was on the New York Times bestseller list for six months. One of the most influential books about children ever published, NurtureShock landed on more than 35 "Year's Best" lists and has been translated into 16 languages. The authors have won nine national awards for their reporting, including the PEN USA Award for Literary Journalism and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Award for Outstanding Journalism. Prior to their collaboration, Bronson authored five books, including What Should I Do with My Life?, a #1 New York Times bestseller with more than ten months on the list. Merryman's journalism has appeared in Time, Newsweek, New York, The Washington Post, and many other venues. Bronson lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children. Merryman lives in Los Angeles.
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Product details
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Twelve; Reprint edition (February 18, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781455515141
ISBN-13: 978-1455515141
ASIN: 1455515140
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 1 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.2 out of 5 stars
108 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#91,498 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I grabbed this book thinking it might give me some insight into the people that I manage. More specifically, I wanted to learn about teams, team dynamics, and what differentiated winning teams from losers. Instead I got a book very much focused on the individual. Why do we compete. How much anxiety does it create to compete and how do different people handle it.The nice thing about the authors is they are basing their book off of countless scientific studies. You don't get a lot of trite statements or colloquialisms. The authors are good at taking the evidence of these studies and creating a compelling story.In the end, I learned several things about the differences between men and women in terms of competition, anxiety levels in competitors, playing not to lose, etc. I just wish there was more coverage on teams and the inner dynamics of winning teams.Well written. Well researched. A good solid read.
This is a very interesting book and an easy read for those of us who like to understand human behavior and psychology. It is filled with often counter-intuitive information about why competitiveness is actually good. There are some broad ideas that can be gleaned for parents, teachers, and managers about various things that might improve performance, but it is really not a guide for individuals. When you have finished this book, you won't have a list of things to do to improve your chances of good performance, but you will have an idea about the kinds of things that matter. So this is a thoughtful book for thoughtful people. Hopefully others will be prompted to provide more practical advice for people to follow.Having said all this, I still easily recommend this book for people who are curious about what makes people perform well.
Very well written and a joy to read. As someone who has to often synthesize scientific evidence for my job as a researcher what the authors have accomplished is no small feat. I only wish there was more research presented on how to teach children how to be good at competing like assessing when to compete and when not to, how to handle losing, how to handle the physiologic stress of entering into competition....etc. I disagree with one section where the authors conclude, after telling the story of how 5% of top coders win 80% of the prize money, that competition is inherently good and fun. Well it's only good and fun for that 5%.
Top Dog by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman starts out with a very exciting pace. There was a brief glimpse at the science of competition. It then slows to more boring pace of information and studies I think would be helpful parents raising young children, yes there is a difference between boys and girls. There is plenty to help you understand competition in the work place. My favorite was situational- anger. One I have become quite acquainted with over the years. I was looking to improve my game instead this book will improve my life with insight on motivating others as a leader and motivating myself.
Very interesting read! I have for my whole life been the guy that is ok at the skill in itself but for some reason always tend to lose when things really matter... But I think it is now slowly changing which is crazy exciting! :) Need to read the book again though, a lot of information to process! Fun fact: The book "ends" at 58% in the kindle, so a whopping 42% of the book is references and a few last words. So it is not as heavy of a read as it seems to be at first!
Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman (authors of Nurtureshock) have written a book whose large message (kind of) bucks the trend of the self-esteem movement: while some people do worse under the pressure of competition, competitive situations (whether against oneself or others) seem to bring out many people's best. The book is devoted to 'filling in' that basic thesis with scientific data from a vast array of fields from behavioral economics to neoroscience.First, the basics of how stress and our reaction to it work. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that produces adrenaline, the body's way of contfronting on stressful situations. COMT is an enzyme that degrades dopamine. People's bodies produce varying levels of dopamine, low dopamine levels leading to an overall competition-avoiding personality, etc. These two 'work together' to determine how a person will react to stress and competition. If your body produces a lot of dopamine naturally, but also produces a high level of COMT (to degrade the dopamine), you may handle stress and competition quite well. If you produce the same high level of dopamine but have a low level of COMT (meaning less dopamine is degraded), you may end up being the type who gets stressed very easily, "overreacting" to mildly stressful situations. Low dopamine levels and high COMT may produce someone who doesn't react strongly enough in stressful or competitive situations. Etc.But the book also talks about the differences in how men and women generally compete. Conventional wisdom tends to say that women aren't very competitive naturally (and those who are have simply learned to get on in a man's competitive world. But like much common wisdom, there is only a grain of truth to this. Pouring over studies of behavior and neuroscience, the authors make a case that women are as competitive as men, but simply are more judicious about when they enter competition.... generally when they believe they have a realistic chance of winning. Women, in other words, look at the odds of whether they have a chance to win, and if they think they do, they compete every bit as hard as men. Men, on the other hand, tend to place more emphasis on what they would gain if they did win (than what their chances are of winning). The authors do refrain from suggesting that one strategy is better than the other; in fact, both strategies may have evolved because they have survival value in different contexts. But they do give some surprising stats showing, for instance, that women investors and money managers have a better track record with their somewhat more conservative strategy than men, who frequently make riskier investment choices.There are some other great challenges to the conventional wisdom here. Foremost is a reassessment of what testosterone and oxytocin are and do. For a long time, scientists told us that testosterone was simply the "aggression drug" and that oxytocin is the "care/empathy drug." It turns out that things are quite a bit more complicated than this. Studies are showing that testosterone can not only increase one's aggression, but increase allegiance with a group when that group is in competition with another group. (Soccor players with high levels of testosterone seem more likely to do things like pass the ball and assist so that team mates can score.) Similarly, oxytocin does not just increase care and empathy, but care and empathy toward those in one's in-group (it also increases aggression against those in the out-group).Lastly, I think an overall message we should take from the book is that competition is not necessarily the bad, intrinsic-motivation-killing, thing (especially when kids are concerned) that we have been told it is by the "self-esteem movement." Yes, some people do not thrive, but wither, when they are faced with competitive situations. But most actually do better when they compete either against themselves or others. Kids who compete often learn to care more about the activity they are doing (sport, music, etc) than those who do not compete at those same activities. Competition also helps people learn to deal with being in stressful situations, both at how to be successful in them AND cope with lack of success. (Of course, they are also careful to acknowledge that healthy competition has necessary conditions, like competitors being mindful of sticking to rules of fair play, and the competition being designed so that competitors believe it to be a fair fight.)Overall, this book was very interesting to read. While written in a easy-going style, there is much information here, and those wanting to look at the more scholarly literature will find a large section of citations pointing them to articles they can pursue further. Teacher, parents, company executives, and just the generally interested lay public should all be able to find something in this book that can help them understand why and how we (should) compete.
Being a past coach & athlete, I have come to better understand the ambitions of myself and my student/athletes through Bronson's research and reporting, which (at least generally) has added new perspectives into why we humans exercise and perhaps compete against ourselves and others. An enjoyable read for anyone who wants to understand (or to better understand) the human psyche regarding the competitive drive (or lack therein!).
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