This is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon Audiobook (Free)

This is Your Brain on Sports activities may be the book for sports fans searching for a deeper understanding of the games they watch and the people who play them. Sports activities Illustrated executive editor and bestselling author L. Jon Wertheim groups up with Tufts psychologist Sam Sommers to take readers on a wild ride into the internal world of sports. Through the prism of behavioral economics, neuroscience, and mindset, they reveal the hidden influences and surprising cues that inspire and derail us-on about This is THE HUMAN BRAIN on Sports activities: The Research of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Study from the T-Shirt Cannon the field and in the stands-and by extension, in corporate board rooms, office configurations, and our daily lives.

In this amazing narrative romp, Wertheim and Sommers usher us from professional soccer to the NBA to Grand Slam rugby, from the mindset of sports athletes self-handicapping their performance in the boxing ring or the Globe Series, to an explanation of why also the glimpse of the finish series can lift us beyond normal physical limits. They explore why Tom Brady and additional starting NFL quarterbacks all appear to look like style models; why enthusiasts of teams like the Cubs, Mets, and any franchise from Cleveland appreciate rooting for any loser; why the best players make the most severe coaches; why hockey goons (and followers) would prefer to fight in the home than on the road; and just why the area t-shirt cannon has something to instruct us about human being nature.

In short, this book is an entertaining and thought-provoking trip into how mindset and behavioral science collide with the universe of wins-and-losses, training changes, underdogs, and rivalry video games.

– Boston Globe, Best Books of 2016, Sports