Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

"(Deliberate) practice makes perfect?" according to Ashutosh S. Jogalekar. Anders Ericsson became famous for his work on what he called "deliberate practice", a set of recipes that could help someone gain expertise in an area. In this readable and well-researched book he expands upon this concept and brings several time-tested and scientifically reviewed ideas to bear on the search for perfection in our lives. Ericsson and his co-author Robert Pool are good storytellers and they pepper their ideas with dozens of case st. A remarkably practical book on how to get better at anything you do Every once in a great while a book comes out that is so useful and so relevant for such a widely diverse group of people that I want to stand on my rooftop and yell, “Read this book now!” Fortunately, it’s way safer for me to just write about it.Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool is the book I encourage you to read. Quite simply, it explains in great detail how to continually impro. "Why some people are amazingly good at what they do…and why so many others aren’t" according to Robert Morris. In “The Making of an Expert,” an article that appeared in the July–August 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review, K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, and Edward T. Cokely share several important revelations from decades of research on peak performance. They could not have anticipated (but may have suspected) that one of the concepts, the so-called “10,000” Rule,” would become so widely and so durably misund

He has found that what separates the best of us from the rest is not innate talent but simply the right kind of training and practice. But with Peak, Anders Ericsson (with great work from Robert Pool) has hit the daily double. Dubner, coauthor of Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics   “Ericsson’s research has revolutionized how we think about human achievement. I can’t think of a better book for a popular audience written on any topic in psychology.” —Daniel Willigham,professor of psychology at the University of

Rest assured that the book is not mere theory. Ericsson’s research focuses on the real world, and he explains in detail, with examples, how all of us can apply the principles of great performance in our work or in any other part of our lives.”—Fortune Anders Ericsson has made a career studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak distills three decades of myth-shattering research into a powerful learning strategy that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring new abilities. Whether you want to stand out at work, improve your athletic or musical performance, or help your child achieve academic goals, Ericsson’s revolutionary methods will show you how to improve at almost any skill that ma