The Greatest: What Sport Teaches Us About Achieving Success [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2017] Matthew Syed

I loved Matthew Syed's previous books, Bounce and Black Box Thinking. Two of my favourite all-time non-fiction books. I bought the paperback version without reading the back page blurb. I was disappointed to find it was simply a collection of articles (although very well written) he had previously published. My mistake. I was expecting to find another ground breaking work on how success works. I had read several of the articles before, so I felt somewhat disappointed. That said it is very well written and I did enjoy the read, but don't expect anything revolutionary.

I can read/Listen to Mathew Syed all day. His ability to see life through sport is a gift.

Was really looking forward to this as I loved 'Bounce' and 'Black Box Thinking' but unfortunately this is just a collection of his newspaper articles. Feels like a real money spinner

As with all his books he writes with the great strengths of the greatest sportspeople with the world. He writes in such an easy readable way without using technical arguments

Re-hash of old articles. Not worth buying

Save yourself some money and don't buy this book. Just a collection of Syed's articles about 1-2 pages long each with minimal insight and analysis that I would expect.

Interesting book but I expected more. I thought there would a real life application of all the attributes presented as summary at the end of the book but to my disappointment there wasn't. I enjoyed the black box thinking more than the Greatest by the same author.