Ben Carter
speaker
694 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2013
last heard Aug 2018
Ben Carter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But perhaps teams should follow the Greek squad's lead and refuse to accept bonuses altogether.
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In a signed letter to the Greek prime minister prior to their second round loss to Costa Rica, they wrote, we do not want an extra bonus or money.
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We only play for Greece and its people.
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And they added that they'd rather the money was spent on creating a new sports centre.
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This is the short edition of More or Less, first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
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Hello and welcome to More or Less on the BBC World Service.
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I'm Ben Carter and this is Dan McLaughlin.
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Back in 2009, Dan was a horrible golfer.
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He's quite a lot better now, and in this programme, we're going to find out why.
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And to do that, I have to take you all the way back to 1993.
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Whitney Houston was dominating the charts, Bill Clinton was a brand new president, and at the University of Colorado, a man called Anders Ericsson was about to publish an influential academic paper.
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Ericsson had become fascinated by the work of a group of psychologists in Berlin who had been observing violin students.
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Specifically, they studied their practice habits in childhood, adolescence and adulthood.
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All of the violinists had begun playing at roughly five years of age, with similar practice times.
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However, at age eight, practice times began to diverge.
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By age 20, the elite performers averaged more than 10,000 hours of practice each, while the less able performers had only 4,000 hours of practice.
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The psychologists didn't see any naturally gifted performers emerge, and this surprised them, because if natural talent had played a role, it wouldn't have been unreasonable to expect to see naturally gifted performers emerge after, say, 5,000 hours.
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They made a direct statistical relationship between hours of practice and levels of achievement.
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Anders Ericsson in Colorado used this and other evidence to suggest that many characteristics once believed to reflect innate talent are actually the result of intense practice extended for a minimum of 10 years.
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It's become known as the 10,000 hour rule and would later be popularised by the author Malcolm Gladwell.
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