Insight from an Expert on Expertise—Karl Ericsson—Author of Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Is natural talent a real thing? Are human beings fundamentally different in that some are born with special capabilities, and others just aren't? How are very high levels of performance attained? And how would the answer to these questions impact who receives access to limited resources? These are a few of the questions that Karl Ericsson has been researching for almost 40 years now.

Ericsson joins the podcast to talk about a number of topics in this field of research, including child "prodigies," possible hallmarks of continuous success from childhood into adulthood in a particular domain, savants, in what ways certain abilities might actually be "natural" (or not), and the lack of overall evidence suggesting that genetics play a role in high levels of performance.

On today's podcast, you will discover:

How purposeful or deliberate practice differs in significant ways from simply "putting in the hours"
Why it can be hard to find a good measure of current performance and how to become more successful
Learning methods and techniques that foster better performance in different fields

Press play for the full conversation, and check out Ericsson's book, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Future Tech Podcast with Richard Jacobs.
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1:08.8	Podcast Network. I have Carl Undish or Anders Erikson.
1:13.6	He is the author of a book called Peak Secrets
1:16.2	from the New Science of Expert.
1:18.4	Co-authored book.
1:20.1	Parr seems to be involved in researching for at least 30 years the general nature and acquisition of expertise.
1:26.0	How to be both become experts? Is talent a real thing? You know, are there such things as prodigies, etc?
1:32.0	He explores a lot of that in the book but I wanted to have them on so we can talk about some ancillary topics that may or may not be in the book and just give it more richness.
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