How To Reach Your Peak: Interview With Anders Ericsson

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🗓️ 4 October 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today we have the privilege of interviewing the expert on expertise, Anders Ericsson. In his book, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, Anders and his collaborator, Robert Pool, introduce a powerful approach to learning through "deliberate practice" — a concept that has been popularized as the "10,000 hour" rule. But we move beyond the shorthand and discover how to harness the full potential of human performance.

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0:27.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast
0:31.0	with Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner.
0:37.0	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. I'm David Gardner. Happy October.
0:41.0	I trust it will be for all of us. October always an enchanting month.
0:45.0	It ends with Halloween, which is certainly one of America's cherished holidays.
0:49.4	But in the meantime, the leaves begin to turn, our area, Washington, D.C. becomes truly beautiful.
0:55.0	I know many other places across America in the Western Hemisphere,
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1:02.0	And so I always enjoy October. I'm going to enjoy
1:05.4	this October of podcast we've got some great ones for you and one of them is
1:09.1	today's. This is an interview I've done with Anders Ericsson who is one of the co-authors of the book
1:14.2	Peek, P-E-A-K, a book about human potential, a book about excellence and expertise.
1:20.5	It puts me in mind of one of my very favorite poems.
1:23.0	In fact, it's such a favorite poem that I've memorized it,
1:25.0	and I'm going to attempt to do it without looking at anything right now for you.
1:30.0	Stephen Spenders, I think continually of those who are truly great because I really do think
1:34.7	that Dr. Ericsson is helping us understand greatness a little bit better.
1:39.7	So here we go.
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