The Road To Excellence by K Anders Ericsson

The Road To Excellence by K Anders Ericsson

This text examines how elite performers in the arts, sciences, sports and games, achieve their accomplishments. It shows that elite performers, rather than being successful due to innate talents, have engaged in activities specifically designed to improve their performance at an early age.

"..an impressive assemblage of expertise....useful to interested researchers."
—Contemporary Psychology

"The Road to Excellence signals the emergence of an exciting and important new chapter in the study of extraordinariness. As distinct from such rubrics as creativity, giftedness, talent, intelligence and genius, the focus here is on experimental and field studies of expert performance in diverse fields: music, chess, figure skating, wrestling, golf, medicine, perception, memory, and reading. While each field raises its own conceptual and methodological problems, most of the authors agree with Ericsson's central finding of the profoundly transformative power of prolonged, well-thought out and well coached 'deliberate practice.' This book is a must-read for anyone interested in how people come to do their best."
—Howard E. Gruber
Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Teachers College Columbia

"This volume contains an interesting description of the development of expert performance in a variety of fields. It is a balanced collection; advocates of the view that experts are born and that experts are made both have their say. Readers will obtain a good picture of how modern scientific psychologists view expertise. The book will be a valuable reference for anyone interested in human cognition."
—Earl Hunt
Professor of Psychology, University of Washington

"This is psychology at its best: employing data from both laboratory and natural environments, using both contentious and provocative ideas. I recommend it highly. Researchers, teachers, parents, mentors and coaches--everyone interested in the development of high levels of talent--will learn much from this book."
—David Berliner
Regents' Professor of Education, Arizona State University

Anders Ericsson, a psychologist at the University of Florida's Conradi Eminent Scholar Center, is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost experts on the development of skills. His well-known works in the fields of experience and pericia have been cited in books by authors such as Joshua Foer, Paul Tough, and Malcolm Gladwell, such as Los desafios de la memory, Cómo triunfan los nios, and Fueras de serie. He is the coauthor of The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance and the author of Development of Professional Expertise. He has specialized in the study of high-level professional strategies for becoming the best in fields as diverse as music, athletics, medicine, and sports.

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ISBN 13	9780805822328
ISBN 10	0805822321
Title	The Road To Excellence
Author	K Anders Ericsson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Inc
Year published	1996-06-01
Number of pages	384
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