ANDERS ERICSSON on Deliberate Practice & The 10000 Hour Rule [Interview 2018]

[@Blink_Youtube]

Great and valuable knowledge. It's incredible to see how much information this man has obtained through his years of research.

[@scienceskills]

Ciao Max, you lucky guy who had the opportunity to interview him when he was still in life.

[@geedubbleyou]

Terrific, thank you!

[@TheRishiArya]

good interview !!! lot of practical tips for one to achieve peak performance

[@James_Bowie]

The concept of continuous improvement (originally known as: plan, do, check, adjust) has been around in manufacturing since the 1920s. Applying it to personal improvement in any field of endeavor seems to be an obvious course.

[@dullhorse9251]

i know how will the things work...things this guy is talking about. .........fantastic insight .

[@thebigredfish]

wow, good thing he's talking about skills and not about office organization.

[@PietroBernal]

hahaha thanks god

[@jasonropata7749]

I just found this, thank you so much for posting this. I've been trying to apply this to my art studies (learning to draw the figure and portraits etc...) any tips on how I could improve on this?

[@MaxHug]

Jason Ropata what exactly is your challenge in your art studies?

[@kenrock6136]

No offense. But just read the whole book. It'll make so much sense

[@osmonddsilva1577]

Excellent!

[@Cris-ss8tb]

That office needs 10 000 hrs of work

[@nasenach]

I want to become an expert at watching KZbin videos.

[@mpcc2022]

Mathematical Problem Solving, Proofs, and Theoretical Physics.

[@pwshungary]

Sorry to say but the reaction of the interviewer just freaks me in here! Anders Ericsson gives amazing and very deep valuable answers and interviewer tells, cool, good, or often he does not even say anything after a long explanation! Hey dude my advice is to learn a bit of communication ethics before interviewing persons at this quality ! There is such a huge contrast between the the two persons quality of talking , approach and attitude that it creams and this has made me very annoyed! But yes definitely thank you to Anders Ericsson to keep his flawless attitude and for his valuable speech!

[@adriancross5531]

I think Max is aware of the time frame in which he has to deliver this interview in regards to the specific question he wishes to ask surrounding this particular subject matter. This lead to very informative answers from Anders. lots of excellent information packed into an interview which was under 40mins, great job.

[@MrgoldenRose]

amazing interview... I'm looking to get in touch with him. Would love a PM About what that journey was like.. will be contacting him via email as I have found it lol

[@hariprasadhparthasarathy9287]

What's pm supposed to mean in this context?

[@pinny492]

He really isn't very clear in his definition of deliberate practice. I really dont believe the way you practice makes that much difference.Talent is more important. The evidence doesn't support the role of deliberate practice

[@kaidouchekaidoucha7723]

Deleberate practice IS to have a teacher , purposful practice IS you learning alone but using others' techniques, naïve practice IS absent minded way of learning .

[@scienceskills]

Your definition of talent is quite vague too. Perhaps you would like to tell us more about it. Second, a recent meta-analysis showed how Deliberate Practice is able to describe the different percentages of the overall variability, up to about 20% in sports for instance. Third, what you call talent, usually ascribable to IQ, is something important at the very beginning. Studies have shown that among the elite chess players, only those with a higher number of high-quality hours of practice outperform the high-IQ people.

[@pinny492]

@@scienceskills Frankly, i don't think anybody outperforms high I.Q people, since usually they reach the highest possible qualification in around 5 years on average. Theres quite a few intelligent youngsters who reached grand master within 5 years.An average I.Q individual with the best possible training requires a bare minimum of 10 years, and probably 20, if everything goes to plan. If deliberate practice explains 20%, what explains the other 80? Genetics, early life experience, unknowns? The way i see if, those factors are cumulatively described as talent. They are difficult to identify, and can't really be altered once a person is old enough to think for themselves.So basically you inherit a foundation which has a very overbearing influence on how you progress at various things.This is what i describe as talent.

[@scienceskills]

​@@pinny492 Your reasoning is flawed. "i don't think anybody outperforms high I.Q people" It is not a scientific statement and, as such, has no value. Before making such statements, please, read the scientific literature fully. Scientific literature points out how people with lower IQ than others, at the elite level, outperform those with higher IQ due to quality and quantity of practice. Your definition of talent is something that is good for a conversation as we have here on KZbin but has no scientific value. However, I have a nice experiment for you. Pick up two people, one with a high IQ and one with an average IQ. Ask the high-IQ person to work 20% of the time of the other person, and then compare their expertise. You will be surprised. Finally, there is one point in all this that I don't like. One might have his opinions and as far as these opinions remain inside your household walls or inside a bar, then it is fine. But when one talks about such delicate issues in the public domain while disregarding what literature says, is dangerous and also a bit annoying, let me say. Deliberate Practice is a performance booster. Isn't that great news? To know that anyone can improve at what he or she is doing? Why dropping by here and discouraging people - not me, let's be clear! - who wants to be much better than they are? Nobody is saying that Deliberate Practice turns everyone, out of the blue, into Mozart, Michael Jordan, or Isaac Newton. But please, cherish the intrinsic value of this type of practice and induce people to be better ones: it helps them be happier. I start to think that you even did not read Erikson's book.

[@pinny492]

@@scienceskills Well how is this for a scientific statement. I.Q score is the single biggest predictor of life outcomes in general.High I.Q people are statistically more likely to have completed higher education, have a phd, be wealthy etc. Not my observation.Just scientific fact. Now tell me something, if somebody with I.Q of 140 studies 3 hours after work, are you going to study 15 hours after work to keep pace with them? I dont think so. Yes deliberate practice helps a lot, but it isn't an equalizer. Im not sure it's helpful to teach people they can all aspire to the same things.