Mental representations
The book describes expertise as involving increasingly useful internal representations: patterns that let a performer recognize, organize, and respond to a task differently.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Secrets from the New Science of Expertise. A starting point for understanding Ericsson's research into practice and exceptional performance.
The practical questions are specific: what needs to improve, what exercise would target it, and how would you tell whether the exercise helped?
My take
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A CLOSER LOOK
The story behind it.
Secrets from the New Science of Expertise. A starting point for understanding Ericsson's research into practice and exceptional performance.
A specific weakness, a specific exercise
Purposeful practice targets an aspect of performance and uses feedback to adjust it. Deliberate practice adds established training methods within a field of developed expertise.
Sources for this closer look
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There’s a thread here.
A GOOD PLACE TO BEGIN
If you only explore two things.
Idea
Deliberate practice
Practice informed by expertise
In Ericsson's framework, deliberate practice is a specific form of purposeful practice, informed by established knowledge of expert performance and effective training methods, often with a qualified teacher.
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Idea
Purposeful practice
Selected work from Anders Ericsson
Practice with specific goals, focused attention, feedback, and work beyond your current comfort zone. It can be purposeful without meeting the narrower requirements of deliberate practice.
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Sources & credits
Introductions are grounded in the sources below. Collection notes and reading prompts provide an editorial starting point; personal opinions are identified in the collection’s content.
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Discover the person. Follow the work.
PersonAnders Ericsson
The selected introduction to Ericsson’s work, written with Robert Pool.
START WITHPeak
LearningPractice
BookChoke
Read together to distinguish developing expertise from accessing it under pressure.
EXPLORE THIS WORKSian Beilock
LearningPerformance
BookRange
Compare breadth and focused practice by asking what kind of learning environment each example describes.
EXPLORE THIS WORKDavid Epstein
LearningPerformance
BookGrit
Distinguish persistence over time from the structure of practice used to develop expertise.
EXPLORE THIS WORKAngela Duckworth
LearningPsychology
IdeaDeliberate practice
Another selected work from Anders Ericsson: In Ericsson's framework, deliberate practice is a specific form of purposeful practice, informed by established knowledge of expert performance and effective training methods, often with a qualified teacher.
EXPLORE THIS WORKAnders Ericsson
LearningPractice
IdeaPurposeful practice
Another selected work from Anders Ericsson: Practice with specific goals, focused attention, feedback, and work beyond your current comfort zone. It can be purposeful without meeting the narrower requirements of deliberate practice.
EXPLORE THIS WORKAnders Ericsson
LearningPractice