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Influence of experience and deliberate practice on expert performance [pdf] (ucsd.edu)
5 points by JustinSkycak 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Ericsson’s book Peak is a great read on the topic https://www.amazon.com/Peak-Secrets-New-Science-Expertise/dp...?


Definitely. Also, lesser known, but his earlier book The Road To Excellence: The Acquisition of Expert Performance in the Arts and Sciences, Sports, and Games.

The Road to Excellence reads almost like a book club among researchers who read Bloom's Developing Talent in Young People and Ericsson's numerous papers on deliberate practice. Each chapter is from a different researcher or group, often with different views. (I was initially a bit put off by the lack of cohesiveness, but in hindsight, I like the resulting feel of authenticity: things get messy at the edge of human knowledge.)

And for anyone who hasn't read Developing Talent in Young People yet, I would highly recommend. The main idea is that Bloom studied the training backgrounds of 120 world-class talented individuals across 6 talent domains: piano, sculpting, swimming, tennis, math, & neurology, and what he discovered was that talent development occurs through a similar general process, no matter what talent domain. In other words, there is a "formula" for developing talent -- though executing it is a lot harder than simply understanding it. (More info: https://www.justinmath.com/book-review-bloom-developing-tale...)




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