Peak

Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

By: Robert Pool, Anders Ericsson

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

From the world's reigning expert on expertise comes a powerful new approach to mastering almost any skill.

Have you ever wanted to learn a language or pick up an instrument, only to become too daunted by the task at hand? Expert performance guru Anders Ericsson has made a career of studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak condenses three decades of original research to introduce an incredibly powerful approach to learning that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring a skill.

Ericsson's findings have been lauded and debated but never properly explained. So the idea of expertise still intimidates us - we believe we need innate talent to excel or think excelling seems prohibitively difficult.

Peak belies both of these notions, proving that almost all of us have the seeds of excellence within us - it's just a question of nurturing them by reducing expertise to a discrete series of attainable practices. Peak offers invaluable, often counterintuitive advice on setting goals, getting feedback, identifying patterns, and motivating yourself. Whether you want to stand out at work or help your kid achieve academic goals, Ericsson's revolutionary methods will show you how to master nearly anything.

©2016 K. Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

Great book that dispels many myths

So many people have a fixed mindset that they are good at this or bad at that, and that they cannot achieve the highest level of performance in certain areas based on certain genetic limitations. The reality from the research is quite different and this book cuts through all the myths to describe what we really know about expert performance and how to achieve it. Anyone can achieve top level performance with the right focus on deliberate practice and this is a liberating fact for all of us that should have a great impact on his we teach and learn.

Intriguing and Relatable

The authors answer how people become experts using interesting, inspiring stories of legends and everyday people.

Moving to expertise

I really enjoyed this book. It touches on important topics of how to transform education. It is a book educators should read.

Great book!

Learned a lot from this book. Gives me confidence to achieve anything with deliberate practice.

great book, well worth the listen!

loved it! it will change your outlook and motivate change! listen over again and let it help your life.