How to be an expert
The only thing standing between you-as-amateur and you-as-expert is dedication.
It turns out that rather than
being naturally gifted at music or math or chess or whatever, a superior performer most likely has a gift for
concentration,...
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How to be an expert
The only thing standing between you-as-amateur and you-as-expert is dedication.
It turns out that rather than
being naturally gifted at music or math or chess or whatever, a superior performer most likely has a gift for
concentration, dedication, and a simple desire to keep getting better.
In theory, again, anyone willing to do
what s required to keep getting better WILL get better.
Maybe the "naaturally talented artist" was simply the one who practiced a hell of a lot more.
Or rather, a hell
of a lot more deliberately.
Dr.
K.
Anders Ericsson, professor of psychology at Florida State University, has spent
most of his 20+ year career on the study of genuises, prodigies, and superior performers.
In the book The New
Brain (it was on my coffee table) Richard Restak quotes Ericsson as concluding:
"For the superior performer the goal isn t just repeating the same thing again and again but achieving higher
levels of control over every aspect of their performance.
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