The Road To Excellence
by K. Anders Ericsson · first published 1996
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Why do so few individuals ever reach the highest levels when so many start out on the Road to Excellence? In this book, the world's foremost researchers of expert performance in domains as diverse as sports, medicine, chess, and the arts explore the similarities and differences in the extended and strenuous Road to Excellence taken by the successful individuals in each domain. Their findings will intrigue and inspire readers who are themselves driven to achieve or who simply want to better understand the processes involved.
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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…
on “Influence of experience and deliberate practice on expert performance [pdf]” ↗…simplified style the references are largely glossed over. In place of Blink, read Antonio Damasio's Descartes Error, the seminal book on emotional reasoning. Instead of Outliers read Anders Ericsson's The Road To Excellence. Both of these more formal books cite sources meticulously.
on “How Not to Explain Success” ↗In the academic community a seminal work on performance is Anders Ericsson's The Road To Excellence. It is based on a premise that excellence in one field is pertinent to excellence in another.
on “The Disneyfication of a University” ↗I found the best resource for myself is Anders Ericsson's The Road To Excellence. The biggest problem I keep finding throughout my own career is I keep losing sight of where I need to focus to push my game forwards. Most of the online resources are aimed at the overcrowded beginner…
on “Ask HN: Resources for Older Developers?” ↗The first study I know of is the 1996 book "The Road to Excellence" http://www.amazon.com/Road-Excellence-Acquisition-Performanc... . I got it after I read Peter Norvig's essay on "Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years." http://norvig.com/21-days.html . So here are…
on “Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours of practice?” ↗…hours number comes from research by K. Anders Ericsson et al, and the first papers mentioning this are from the early nineties, if not earlier (as for book references, it's discussed in Ericsson's "The Road To Excellence" that predates the Cambridge Handbook by a decade).
on “After 15 years of practice..” ↗…Gladwell. I read the article you linked and was hoping it contained new research to clarify or refute the work done by Ericsson, but it didn't. The linked article regurgitates two of the key points in The Road To Excellence by Ericsson: * You need to be engaged in deliberate practice (e.g pushing yourself outside of your current area of expertise). Not mindless work. I'm not an expert driver from my 10,000+ hours of commuting.…
on “OSSU: A path to a free self-taught education in computer science” ↗