Peak

A survey of the psychology of expertise, providing techniques for developing mastery of any skill, drawn from the authors extensive, pathfinding research Download Peak – kino-fada.fr If you want to get better at anything, this book is your starting point.As a sopho in high school, I remember asking my favorite English teacher if he would sign off on my application to an advanced writing class The look on his face was shock mouth open, eyebrows raised I felt stupid for even asking.Needless to say, I took a general English class my junior year.But I decided I didn t want the other kids to get ahead of me academically I didn t have that elusive, all important trait that If you want to get better at anything, this book is your starting point.As a sopho in high school, I remember asking my favorite English teacher if he would sign off on my application to an advanced writing class The look on his face was shock mouth open, eyebrows raised I felt stupid for even asking.Needless to say, I took a general English class my junior year.But I decided I didn t want the other kids to get ahead of me academically I didn t hav...I don t think this had to be a whole book but that said I do think the idea behind the book is a meaningful one I know I personally spend a lot of time practicing things without getting better because I don t actively engage in what I m doing and try to improve on whatever part of the skill...K Anders Ericsson writes a good book with lots of practical applications that falls victim to the classic type 2 statistical error false negative Let s start with the good stuff Ericsson tells a lot of cool anecdotes about the utility of deliberate practice He never really defines deliberate practice But basically it means getting a coach and performing focused exercises to get better while analyzing results Easy enough There is also some cool material about improving mental representat K Anders Ericsson writes a good book with lots of practical applications that falls victim to the classic type 2 statistical error false negative Let s start with the good stuff Ericsson tells a lot of cool anecdotes about the utility of deliberate practice He never really defines deliberate practice But basically it means getting a coach and performing focused exercises to get better while analyzing results Easy enough There is also some cool material about improving mental representations The stories are encouraging, and they widen one s perspective of what is possible.Now for the negative Well, first, the what should I do portion of the book could have been written in about 5 pages But that s not the big deal This is the big deal And this,than anything else, is the lesson that people should take away from all these stories and all this research There is no reason not to follow your dream Deliberat...Talent is made, not born Specifically, according to Ericsson Pool, it s made through years and years of deliberate practice the process of learning to recognize and emulate existing models of elite performance, through active trial and error, regular expert feedback, and self motivated resilience Deliberate practice is necessarily painful, but rewarding for those who keep at i...Anders Ericsson reasons that expertise is best developed by deliberate practice and the existence of innate talent is an unconfirmed hypothesis.Deliberate practice means doing knowledge by itself is not indicative of expertise.This is a positive book as its message is that the power to become great in any area is in everyone s hands Here are the insights.Gaining expertise is largely a matter of improving one s mental processes.If you never push yourself beyond your comfort zone, you will nev Anders Ericsson reasons that expertise is best developed by deliberate practice and the existence of innate talent is an unconfirmed hy...Everest There is no vantage point higher on the subject of expert performance than Anders Ericsson s lifetime achievement in sharing this book Through years of deliberate practice in observing what truly sets apart the best from the rest, Ericsson has guided many to new heights of accomplishment through his insights that sparked a paradigm shift of our understanding of experts The ideas shared in these pages will no doubt help propel countless others for decades to come as they make even gr Everest There is no vantage point higher on the subject of expert performance than Anders Ericsson s lifetime achievement in sharing this book Through years of deliberate practice in observing what truly sets apart the best from the rest, Ericsson has guided many to new heights of accomplishment through his insights that sparked a paradigm shift of our understanding of experts The ideas shared in these pages will no doubt help propel countless others for decades to come as they make even greater summits of human achievement.If you are looking to get better at any skill, from athletics, to medicine, to teaching, to science or business, then read this book The answers are not easy, but they are clear The world owes Anders Ericsson a deep debt of gratitude for helping shift our collective understanding of expert pe...Before I say anything else, this is the single most rewarding book I ve read this year I recommend anyone and everyone to read it It s one of those books that busts the myths that have been floating around about natural talent being something that only a select few possess.Back in 2008 Malcolm Gladwell introduced K Anders Ericssons research on expertise to the masses Those who read up on the research understood that there wasto it than the version presented in Gladwell s book Unfort Before I say anything else, this is the single most rewarding book I ve read this year I recommend anyone and everyone to read it It s one of those books that busts the myths that have been floating around about natural talent being something that only a select few possess.Back in 2008 Malcolm Gladwell introduced ...Great book.Note to self Create mental model to remember to figure out how to create mental models.This book relates the research that Malcolm Gladwell s book Outliers was based on and referenced inaccurately Ericsson is a passionate advocate of deliberate practice, which is NOT the ten thousand hours that Gladwell popularized, but rather a lot a lotthan you think of practice, but practice focused on specific g...Important BookI try to keep a running list of important books that I want my kids to read when they re older I m adding Peak and its story of deliberate practice to the list The book makes the point that there is no such thing as innate talent or if there is, it only helps one at the very beginning of learning a new skill Deliberate practice and building mental models referred to as mental representations are the keys This book reinforced to me that having my kids take music lessons is Important BookI try to keep a running list of important books that I want my kids to read when they re older I m adding Peak and its story of deliberate practice to the list The book makes the point that there is no such thing as innate talent or if there is, it only helps one at the very beginning of learning a new skill Deliberate practice and building mental models referred to as mental representations are the keys This book reinforced to m...

• 19 July 2018
K. Anders Ericsson
• ebook
• 336 pages
• 0544456254
• K. Anders Ericsson
• Peak