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4 episodes. One question each.

Every claim checked against the source. Where the study doesn't support the headline, the episode says so.

00418:13Don't Change DirectionEvery hour anyone has put into getting good at something explains about twelve percent of how good they end up. The show's own name gets one thing right about that and two things badly wrong.8 September 202600317:54Where the Decade WentEveryone thinks time speeds up because you stop making memories. A study of 120 people aged 20 to 91 found the opposite — and then a caveat that undoes half of it.29 August 202600216:51You Can't Aim at the Sweet SpotTwenty-five years of research on the mental game of tennis, one model with a pun in it, and two interventions — one of which takes ten minutes and a pen.28 August 202600113:55Start Early, Stay WideWhat the research on junior tennis actually says — and why "but Federer started at three" is an argument against early specialisation, not for it.27 August 2026

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