Science for a change

Kumeu neuroscientist and author of The Winner’s Bible Dr Kerry Spackman shares his day, and his work, as part of the Guardian’s Nine to Five series, beginning with a run, which for Spackman is “like pushing the reset  button on the computer.” “What I do isn’t self-help; I take exception to a lot of self-help books that aren’t based on science and can be a bit trite. Telling a highly performing individual to ‘think positive’ isn’t going to make a difference they know that already but what I do gets behind the science of why or how performance has changed. When I’m working with athletes, I need to know everything about them so that’s what we concentrate on in the first session the All Blacks call it the ‘Deep Dive’; they say, ‘We’re going to do the Deep Dive with Kerry.’ Sometimes I’ll have world-famous people come to me, and I think there’s nothing possibly new to uncover about them, but there always is. I’ll find what it is that really has an influence on them.”


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Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season

Cancelled after two season, Taika Waititi’s “silly comedy” Our Flag Means Death “deserves one more voyage”, according to Radio Times critic George White. “ was meant to be sacred…