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Peak : secrets from the new science of expertise / Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016Description: xxiii, 307 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780544456235 (hardcover)
  • 0544456238 (hardcover)
  • 9780544809703 (trade paper)
  • 054480970X (trade paper)
  • 9780544947221
Subject(s):
Contents:
The power of purposeful practice -- Harnessing adaptability -- Mental representations -- The gold standard -- Principles of deliberate practice on the job -- Principles of deliberate practice in everyday life -- The road to extraordinary -- But what about natural talent? -- Where to we go from here?
Summary: Draws on the examples of chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens to outline a powerful approach to learning that enables proficiency through strategic goal setting, self-motivation, and feedback exercises.Summary: 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. Ericsson and Pool introduce an incredibly powerful approach to learning that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring a skill, and offer invaluable, often counterintuitive, advice on setting goals, getting feedback, identifying patterns, and motivating yourself.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 153.9 E68 Available 33111008165405
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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. 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.

"An Eamon Dolan book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The power of purposeful practice -- Harnessing adaptability -- Mental representations -- The gold standard -- Principles of deliberate practice on the job -- Principles of deliberate practice in everyday life -- The road to extraordinary -- But what about natural talent? -- Where to we go from here?

Draws on the examples of chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens to outline a powerful approach to learning that enables proficiency through strategic goal setting, self-motivation, and feedback exercises.

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. Ericsson and Pool introduce an incredibly powerful approach to learning that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring a skill, and offer invaluable, often counterintuitive, advice on setting goals, getting feedback, identifying patterns, and motivating yourself.

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