Michael Jordan didn't become the greatest basketball player of all time by chance or by talent alone. The NBA icon was a ...

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Matthew Syed explores the nature of reality and the possibility of its hidden layers.

As Matthew Syed explains in Sideways, “Subliminals are things we can’t see or hear; they fly below the threshold of conscious awareness.” When we are exposed to subliminal messaging ...

In Sideways, Matthew Syed, who has had his own problems with feeling tongue-tied, looks at why speech is not as straightforward as one would think and why the solution is as much about the ears as ...

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Best-selling author Matthew Syed is the presenter of a new Radio 4 series, Sideways, which explores different ways of seeing the world around us. Here he explains why humans are so bad at dealing ...

Matthew Syed looks at how adopting an alter ego can help us to access confidence, push ourselves in the face of challenge and, ultimately, become the best versions of ourselves.

In First Loves, an episode from the BBC Radio 4 podcast Sideways, Matthew Syed explores the impact our earliest romantic partnerships can still have on our lives decades later. He asks what makes ...

Show more As we swipe to find love and consult chatbot therapists, Matthew Syed asks how technology has altered the way we approach dating, friendship and community. It’s not all technology ...

Matthew Syed explains how this resistance to the mediocre, which Andrew faced when setting up his average a cappella group, is seen all across the business world too. Employers often state they ...

Matthew Syed contends that John Hilton knew that “the highest form of deception relied, in a strange way, upon empathy” and that he was “deeply attuned to his opponents”, adding that “he ...