Best of: Peak Performance and the Science of Expertise with Anders Ericsson
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
When you think of the idea of “deliberate practice” and the study around that concept, one name comes to mind: Anders Ericsson. He shared with us his thoughts on what that is, how we use that to attain peak performance, and the importance of teachers in our lives.
K. Anders Ericsson is a Swedish psychologist and Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University who is internationally recognized as a researcher in the psychological nature of expertise and human performance. He’s also the author of Peak: The New Science of Expertise
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| 0:00.0 | We have this basic activity where you set a goal, |
| 0:05.0 | so you're trying to do something that you can't do, |
| 0:08.0 | and you have a practice activity that you can kind of repeatedly apply so you can kind of explore different ways in which you can actually now achieve this goal that you've set. |
| 0:20.0 | And if a teacher has now been able to identify this as a suitable change for you, |
| 0:28.0 | then we call that deliberate practice. |
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| 1:19.0 | Anders, welcome to the Unmistakable Creative. |
| 1:21.0 | Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. |
| 1:23.8 | Well, it's my pleasure, and I'm really |
| 1:25.4 | looking forward to talking to you. |
| 1:27.3 | Yeah, likewise. |
| 1:28.0 | So I was very, very thrilled to find out, |
| 1:31.0 | find that you had written a book book since you literally are the one who |
| 1:34.2 | coined the term deliberate practice which has made its way into nearly every |
| 1:38.4 | social science book that I have ever read about how to improve performance in something and every one of our |
| 1:44.5 | listeners probably is curious about you know what it is they can be doing to improve |
| 1:48.0 | their performance in you know whatever area they're trying to become experts in but |
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