The New Science of Expertise: Anders Ericsson

Speaker: Anders Ericsson, Professor of Psychology, Florida State University; Author
Topic: "Peak: Success from the New Science of Expertise" (Viking, 2016)
Big Ideas Speaker Series
April 14, 2016
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[@MastanehNazarian]

Alexander technique is the absolute mother of learning to put deliberate awareness of what we are doing in to practice.

[@watashiikarashi]

Is there anyone from Treehouse?

[@KevinIaMmE94]

Yes

[@omanjabbar200]

Rest in peace.

[@joaopaints]

:(

[@arande3]

No wonder this seems so familiar - I read this book a few months ago and it was fantastic

[@alimalik4952]

If you have this book as PDF please send it to me at" [e-mail]" .

[@gmnboss]

Legend

[@sabrinabrahamma3234]

I have been using deliberate practice 8 years is has gotten great results for me and my clients.

[@rivenz6]

I have been using deliberate practice for 9 years, and it has done diddly squat.I absolutely suck.Deliberate practice is not worth a pinch of salt....

[@sabrinabrahamma3234]

@@rivenz6 No success in 9 years? Hard to understand.

[@rivenz6]

@@sabrinabrahamma3234 Maybe I have no talent?

[@upgradedragon9430]

@@rivenz6it is hard to believe you could use deliberate practice consistently for 9 years and not improve greatly. What are we talking about here? A sport? A field of study? Did you practice every day or at least most days?

[@rivenz6]

@@upgradedragon9430 Yeah i practised every day, for quite a few years it was like 3 hours per day. I mean i got better slowly up to maybe barely intermediate level, but could make no further progress with any amount of practice. I spent 1500 hours trying to work out how to pull off an arpeggio at speed.Could never do it.

[@akilkalel]

This is amazing! Got any more videos with Anders Ericsson?

[@hoderton9135]

This one is enough to understand the whole point of his concept. Additional explanations are in his amazing book

[@JayKayKay7]

As a retired gas passer, we didn't train on simulators with video feedback and wise grey heads to step in an save the case from ruin. We trained on lots and lots of poor people and at all hours of the day and night suffering from every possible description of trauma, sickness, and crazy under the neglectful eye of staff who would yell at us the next day for any hint of slackening or error. See one, do one, teach one was the mantra. We had a saying, "If your not killing a few, your not really trying very hard" Or " Are you stupid, or just lazy?". Better to answer "Stupid. Sir."

[@benkim5938]

RIP

[@pod9363]

The brain runs on rules and if we can figure out those rules, then we can literally learn anything (IQ provided of course).

[@pinny492]

You are aware that I.Q is largely inherited?

[@PureFact]

@@pinny492 did he say it isn't?

[@rivenz6]

Anders Ericsson is quite frankly not all there. This thing about deliberate practice is complete rubbish. He invented the concept, and nobody whatsoever outside of his group of co authors has ever provided research or evidence in support of this concept of "deliberate practice".It is a terminology that only Ericsson uses, as it is not even accepted in the scientific community as a "thing". There is no such thing as deliberate practice.It is a stupid, bogus, undefined terminology than Ericsson created. I have never, ever seen a person practice at anything, without receiving feedback.I have never, ever seen anybody paractice at anything without them focussing on one specific thing they needed to improve.These are core tenets of what Ericsson refers to as "deliberate practice".Strangely everybody, including the worst performers, ALL do these things when they practice.So when Ericsson refers to "deliberate practice", he is really referring to "just practice".

[@joaopaints]

I dont agree, the reason why people stagnate in a skill is due to the lack of delibirate practice. I myself experienced this firsthand

[@rivenz6]

@@joaopaints Well, I find deliberate practice does not help, so I guess its a stalemate.

[@easyplanning2651]

@@rivenz6 It helped me achieve straight A's. I was a D average student.

[@123duelist]

@rivenz6, he has a whole book out on Deliberate practice, which you can research, but you decide to use a 3 minute video to try and pick apart something he has written a whole book on. Nice.

[@LucasDanielSantoro]

Malcolm Gladwell has taken his theory and presented some testimonials. The Beatles and Bill Gates are some examples you may be familiar with. (if you say bad of Malcolm Gladwell I'll just label you as a troll and not speak with you again)

[@rivenz6]

And if Ericsson is so convinced about deliberate practice, why has it not made him an expert performer.Based on his credentials, he is an idiot. Deliberate practice clearly hasn't worked for him.Case closed...

[@RaptorBot]

Read his BOOK named Peak the new science of expertise

[@James_Bowie]

From your comment it's crystal clear who the idiot is. Go troll elsewhere.

[@pinny492]

@@RaptorBot the book is a debunked croc.Full of untruths.

[@RaptorBot]

@@pinny492 how? is there a video or article debunking it?

[@shravan7623]

@@RaptorBot Not exactly. Dr.Ericsson argued that Deliberate Practice is the predominant reason behind certain people achieving "elite" levels of expertise. Further research on his theory led by two other psychologists(who collaborate with each other) namely Dr. Brooke N Macnamara and Dr. David Hambrick came to the conclusion that Deliberate Practice is certainly necessary to making an expert but it does not play as large a role as Dr.Ericsson had originally argued. Dr. Macnamara and Dr.Hambrick found that Deliberate practice explains 30% of the variance between individual expertise. Dr. Ericsson had argued that Deliberate Practice explains _majority_ of the variance between individual levels of expertise(more than 50%). That's the bone of contention really. Deliberate Practice still remains an essential aspect of becoming an expert in any field.