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How All of Us Can Achieve Extraordinary Things
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The expert on expertise and inventor of the 10,000-hour rule offers his insights and techniques on how to master any skill.
We live in a world full of people with extraordinary abilities. Consider what Roger Federer can do with a tennis ball, or Connor McDavid with a puck. There are chess grandmasters who can play several dozen different games simultaneously--while blindfolded--and a seemingly unending supply of young musical prodigies who would have astonished aficionados a century ago. We are dramatically better at just about everything than we were just a generation ago.We assume, though, that these peak performers are the lucky ones, the ones with a gift. That's only partly true. The fact is we are all lucky. We all have that gift. As Ericsson's whole career has shown, with the proper practice, we are allcapable of extraordinary feats.
The techniques that chess players use to develop their skills seem quite different from the methods pianists use to improve their playing. But at a deeper level, they are all variations on a single fundamental approach to learning, what Ericsson has named "deliberate practice": a simple, yet powerful system for enhancing learning. This approach to expertise has the potential to revolutionize how we think about every sort of education and training. We can define the limits of our talents. Whether you want to step up your game at work or help your kid achieve athletic or academic goals, Ericsson's revolutionary methods will show you how to master almost anything.
About this Author
K. ANDERS ERICSSON is the Conradi Eminent Scholar of Psychology at Florida State University and has been the driving force behind the development of the field of expert performance. He is recognized as the world's foremost authority on deliberate practice and is an expert in the field of professional development. He has been interviewed for dozens of print articles about his research, has spoken on air with a number of radio interviewers, and has made several television appearances, including on NBC's Datelineand on The Golf Channel.
ROBERT POOL writes about science and technology for a general audience. He has contributed to many of the world's leading science publications, including Science, Nature, Discover, New Scientist, and Technology Review, and over the past decade he has worked extensively with the National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. He is the author of several books, including Eve's Rib: Searching for the Biological Roots of Sex Differences and Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology, which has been in print for nearly fifteen years.
Reviews
"[T]he principles they share regarding deliberate practice and education are sufficiently clear that teachers everywhere--as well as learners--should be able to apply them immediately and judge the results for themselves."--The Objective Standard
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