Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
Pool, Robert, Ericsson, Anders
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Published by Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Har, 2016
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- Title
- Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
- Author
- Pool, Robert, Ericsson, Anders
- Publisher
- Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Har
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0544456238
- ISBN 13
- 9780544456235
From the world&;s reigning expert on expertise comes a powerful new approach to mastering almost any skill.
Have you ever wanted to learn a language or pick up an instrument, only to become too daunted by the task at hand? Expert performance guru Anders Ericsson has made a career studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak condenses three decades of original research to introduce an incredibly powerful approach to learning that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring a skill. 
Have you ever wanted to learn a language or pick up an instrument, only to become too daunted by the task at hand? Expert performance guru Anders Ericsson has made a career studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak condenses three decades of original research to introduce an incredibly powerful approach to learning that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring a skill. 
  
Ericsson&;s findings have been lauded and debated, but never properly explained. So the idea of expertise still intimidates us &; we believe we need innate talent to excel, or think excelling seems prohibitively difficult. 
 
Peak belies both of these notions, proving that almost all of us have the seeds of excellence within us &; it&;s just a question of nurturing them by reducing expertise to a discrete series of attainable practices. Peak offers invaluable, often counterintuitive, advice on setting goals, getting feedback, identifying patterns, and motivating yourself.  Whether you want to stand out at work, or help your kid achieve academic goals, Ericsson&;s revolutionary methods will show you how to master nearly anything.
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About the Author
K. ANDERS ERICSSON, PhD, is Conradi Eminent Scholar and professor of psychology at Florida State University. He studies expert performance in domains such as music, chess, medicine, and sports. His groundbreaking work has been cited in bestsellers from Moonwalking with Einstein to Outliers to How Children Succeed. He lives in Florida.
ROBERT POOL, PhD, is a science writer living and working in Tallahassee, Florida. He has worked at some of the world’s most prestigious science publications, including Science and Nature, and his work has appeared in many others, including Discover and Technology Review. He has written three books, including Eve’s Rib: Searching for the Biological Roots of Sex Differences and Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology.
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