-
Peak
- Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Beevers
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Categories: Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development, Personal Development
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Audible Premium Plus
$14.95 a month
Buy for $23.44
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
The Productivity Project
- Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy
- By: Chris Bailey
- Narrated by: Chris Bailey
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream - to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and interviews with some of the world's foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen.
-
-
Excellent Book on Personal Productivity
- By Bob W.. on 02-26-16
By: Chris Bailey
-
Master Your Time, Master Your Life
- The Breakthrough System to Get More Results, Faster, in Every Area of Your Life
- By: Brian Tracy
- Narrated by: Brian Tracy
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Master Your Time, Master Your Life, Tracy explains why tackling the right project at the right time is of the utmost importance. Based on the most recent research into the field of productivity as well as the author's personal experiences and those of his clients, Tracy argues that we may be stuck on something because of one simple thing: The timing isn't right.
-
-
Recorded in a closet?
- By Cyntune on 07-30-19
By: Brian Tracy
-
The Obstacle Is the Way
- The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
- By: Ryan Holiday
- Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
We are stuck, stymied, frustrated. But it needn't be this way. There is a formula for success that's been followed by the icons of history - from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs - a formula that let them turn obstacles into opportunities. Faced with impossible situations, they found the astounding triumphs we all seek.
-
-
Authors should not read their own books
- By jibmo109 on 05-11-17
By: Ryan Holiday
-
The Philosophy Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
An essential introduction to the history, concepts, and thinking behind philosophy that demystifies what can often be daunting subject matter, laid out in DK's signature style.
-
-
Excellent starting point for learning philosophy
- By J OLIVEIRA-FILHO on 10-08-19
By: DK
-
High Performance Habits
- How Extraordinary People Become That Way
- By: Brendon Burchard
- Narrated by: Brendon Burchard
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After extensive original research and a decade as the world's highest-paid performance coach, Brendon Burchard finally reveals the most effective habits for reaching long-term success. Based on one of the largest surveys ever conducted on high performers, it turns out that just six habits move the needle the most in helping you succeed. Adopt these six habits and you win. Neglect them and life is a never-ending struggle. We all want to be high performing in every area of our lives. But how?
-
-
Skip the First 3 Chapters
- By John on 07-20-18
By: Brendon Burchard
-
The 1-Page Marketing Plan
- Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd
- By: Allan Dib
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
To build a successful business, you need to stop doing random acts of marketing and start following a reliable plan for rapid business growth. Traditionally, creating a marketing plan has been a difficult and time-consuming process, which is why it often doesn't get done.
-
-
I NEVER write reviews!
- By Just Love ❤️ on 04-24-17
By: Allan Dib
-
The Productivity Project
- Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy
- By: Chris Bailey
- Narrated by: Chris Bailey
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream - to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and interviews with some of the world's foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen.
-
-
Excellent Book on Personal Productivity
- By Bob W.. on 02-26-16
By: Chris Bailey
-
Master Your Time, Master Your Life
- The Breakthrough System to Get More Results, Faster, in Every Area of Your Life
- By: Brian Tracy
- Narrated by: Brian Tracy
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Master Your Time, Master Your Life, Tracy explains why tackling the right project at the right time is of the utmost importance. Based on the most recent research into the field of productivity as well as the author's personal experiences and those of his clients, Tracy argues that we may be stuck on something because of one simple thing: The timing isn't right.
-
-
Recorded in a closet?
- By Cyntune on 07-30-19
By: Brian Tracy
-
The Obstacle Is the Way
- The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
- By: Ryan Holiday
- Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
We are stuck, stymied, frustrated. But it needn't be this way. There is a formula for success that's been followed by the icons of history - from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs - a formula that let them turn obstacles into opportunities. Faced with impossible situations, they found the astounding triumphs we all seek.
-
-
Authors should not read their own books
- By jibmo109 on 05-11-17
By: Ryan Holiday
-
The Philosophy Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
An essential introduction to the history, concepts, and thinking behind philosophy that demystifies what can often be daunting subject matter, laid out in DK's signature style.
-
-
Excellent starting point for learning philosophy
- By J OLIVEIRA-FILHO on 10-08-19
By: DK
-
High Performance Habits
- How Extraordinary People Become That Way
- By: Brendon Burchard
- Narrated by: Brendon Burchard
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After extensive original research and a decade as the world's highest-paid performance coach, Brendon Burchard finally reveals the most effective habits for reaching long-term success. Based on one of the largest surveys ever conducted on high performers, it turns out that just six habits move the needle the most in helping you succeed. Adopt these six habits and you win. Neglect them and life is a never-ending struggle. We all want to be high performing in every area of our lives. But how?
-
-
Skip the First 3 Chapters
- By John on 07-20-18
By: Brendon Burchard
-
The 1-Page Marketing Plan
- Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd
- By: Allan Dib
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
To build a successful business, you need to stop doing random acts of marketing and start following a reliable plan for rapid business growth. Traditionally, creating a marketing plan has been a difficult and time-consuming process, which is why it often doesn't get done.
-
-
I NEVER write reviews!
- By Just Love ❤️ on 04-24-17
By: Allan Dib
-
Methods to Cure Procrastination, Bad Productivity, and Poor Time Management
- Learn How to Stop Procrastinating with a Simple Equation, Made to Increase Focus, Hypnosis, and More Hacks You Need to Know
- By: Brian Hatak, Michael Tracy
- Narrated by: Brian Telestai
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Do you have problems prioritizing tasks? Struggling to finish set goals on time? Constantly being interrupted? If you do, within this audiobook, various types of successful people have shared their knowledge on how to overcome these problems and more.
-
-
Very well balanced
- By Anonymous User on 12-14-18
By: Brian Hatak, and others
-
The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime
- By: MJ DeMarco
- Narrated by: MJ DeMarco
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Since you were old enough to hold a job, you've been hoodwinked to believe that wealth can be created by blindly trusting in the uncontrollable and unpredictable markets: the housing market, the stock market, and the job market. I call this soul-sucking, dream-stealing dogma "The Slowlane" - an impotent financial gamble that dubiously promises wealth in a wheelchair. For those who don't want a lifetime subscription to "settle-for-less", there is an alternative.
-
-
Wayyyy to long BUT one of the BEST books around !!
- By Tony Rogers Jr on 04-18-18
By: MJ DeMarco
-
The Upward Spiral
- Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time
- By: Alex Korb PhD.
- Narrated by: David deVries
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Depression can feel like a downward spiral, pulling you down into a vortex of sadness, fatigue, and apathy. Based in the latest research in neuroscience, this audiobook offers dozens of little things you can do every day to rewire your brain and create an upward spiral towardsa happier, healthier life.
-
-
Practical & Positive
- By Sara on 07-05-15
By: Alex Korb PhD.
-
Ready, Fire, Aim
- Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat
- By: Michael Masterson
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
If you had the opportunity to work where, when, and with whom you wanted - all while getting paid very well - would you take it? Self-made multimillionaire and best-selling author Michael Masterson did, and with Ready, Fire, Aim he'll show you how to do the same.
-
-
Best Business Book in a Long Time
- By Adam on 05-14-08
-
The Book on Rental Property Investing
- How to Create Wealth and Passive Income Through Smart Buy & Hold Real Estate Investing
- By: Brandon Turner
- Narrated by: Brandon Turner
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
If you’re considering using real estate investing to build wealth or obtain financial freedom, this book is a must-listen. With hours of in-depth advice, The Book on Rental Property Investing imparts practical and exciting strategies that investors across the world are using to build significant cash flow with rental properties.
-
-
2017 Review
- By Hannah on 08-30-17
By: Brandon Turner
-
Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & flow
- By: Dominica Degrandis
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this timely book, IT time management expert Dominica DeGrandis reveals the real crime of the century - time theft, one of the most costly factors impacting enterprises in their day-to-day operations.
-
-
Buy the ebook instead
- By Mike Esch on 01-28-20
-
Company of One
- Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
- By: Paul Jarvis
- Narrated by: Paul Jarvis
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Paul Jarvis left the corporate world when he realized that working in a high-pressure, high profile world was not his idea of success. In Company of One, Jarvis explains how you can find the right pathway to do the same, including planning how to set up your shop, determining your desired revenues, dealing with unexpected crises, keeping your key clients happy, and of course, doing all of this on your own. Company of One is a refreshingly new approach centered on staying small and avoiding growth, for any size business.
-
-
Starts out strong...
- By Oliver Nielsen on 05-02-20
By: Paul Jarvis
-
48 Laws of Power
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.
-
-
You don't have to be a psychopath to like this.
- By Gaggleframpf on 02-25-16
By: Robert Greene
-
Will It Fly? How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money
- By: Pat Flynn
- Narrated by: Pat Flynn
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Stop rushing into businesses born from half-baked ideas, misguided theories, and other forms of self-delusion. A lack of proper validation kills more businesses than anything else. As Joel Barker says, "Speed is only useful if you're running in the right direction." Will It Fly? will help you make sure you are clear for takeoff.
-
-
This book is worth way, way more than its price!
- By Howard_a on 03-25-16
By: Pat Flynn
-
Driven to Distraction at Work
- How to Focus and Be More Productive
- By: Ned Hallowell
- Narrated by: Christopher Kipiniak
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Dr. Hallowell now identifies the underlying reasons why people lose their ability to focus at work. He explains why commonly offered solutions like "learn to manage your time better" or "make a to-do list" don't work because they ignore the deeper issues that are the true causes of mental distraction. Based on his years of helping clients develop constructive ways to deal with distraction, Dr. Hallowell provides a set of practical and reliable techniques to show how to sustain a productive mental state.
-
-
Scenarios engage my interest
- By Adrienne Moore Baxter on 10-06-17
By: Ned Hallowell
-
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated)
- By: Timothy Ferriss
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This expanded edition includes dozens of practical tips and case studies from readers who have doubled their income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book. Also included are templates for eliminating email and negotiating with bosses and clients, how to apply lifestyle principles in unpredictable economic times, and the latest tools, tricks, and shortcuts for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either.
-
-
Yech
- By Michael on 01-21-19
By: Timothy Ferriss
-
Extreme Productivity
- Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours
- By: Robert C. Pozen
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Robert C. Pozen taught a full course load at Harvard Business School while serving as the full-time chairman of a global financial-services firm. He's written six books and hundreds of articles, raised a family with his wife of more than four decades, and served on many boards of local charities and public companies. Pozen is a prince of productivity, a man who has worked smarter and faster than almost everyone around him for more than 40 years.
-
-
Title Content Disconnect
- By Sean P. Phibbs on 05-10-13
By: Robert C. Pozen
Publisher's Summary
Mozart wasn't born with perfect pitch. Most athletes are not born with any natural advantage. Three world-class chess players were sisters whose success was planned by their parents before they were even born.
Anders Ericsson has spent 30 years studying the special ones - the geniuses, sports stars and musical prodigies. And his remarkable finding, revealed in Peak, is that their special abilities are acquired through training. The innate 'gift' of talent is a myth. Exceptional individuals are born with just one unique ability, shared by us all - the ability to develop our brains and bodies through our own efforts.
Anders Ericsson's research was the inspiration for the popular '10,000-hour rule', but, he tells us, this rule is only the beginning of the story. It's not just the hours that are important but how you use them. We all have the seeds of excellence within us - it's merely a question of how to make them grow.
With a bit of guidance, you'll be amazed at what the average person can achieve. The astonishing stories in Peak prove that potential is what you make it.
More from the same
What listeners say about Peak
Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Luca
- 04-04-19
Awesome
This is one of the books which gives hope that you still can improve even you are old.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Amazon Customer
- 11-05-18
Life changing
I loved it. I've been applying deliberate practice without knowing it in some fields, and it definitely is the best definitive way to learn stuff. Now that I consciously know about it, I've started applying it with (already) great results.
This book has really the potential to change the lens through which you see the world and I've found it greatly motivating to say the least.
The narrator is also amazing and has made the whole experience very pleasurable.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Victor
- 09-10-18
A life changing book
There are too many books out there to read in a lifetime. Everyone should find the time to read this book.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Carlin Archer
- 07-18-18
Excellent subject matter, great book
This book is a must read for anyone interested in learning how to learn. Especially recommend this title for parents.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Dennis
- 02-27-18
disappointing
This book is far too long for it's content. At some point it just gets kind of tedious to listen to as it tries too explain the same point as before in an almost identical way without using any kind of refreshing anecdotes. The book basically stresses two points. One: you are not born with skill or talent so anyone can gain equal expertise. Two: deliberate practice is the way to achieve it. Here deliberate practice is what is sounds like: practicing with the goal to improve with clear feedback. If you accept these two points there is little left to gain from reading this book.
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Einar Aune
- 09-23-17
Haven't found the secrets yet.
What was most disappointing about Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool ’s story?
This book was sold as a scroll of truth - the secrets for how to do deliberate practice. I've gotten a couple of hours into it now, and all I can see are success stories. Stories claiming that deliberate practice works, and why deliberate practice is more impactful than you might think. This is fine and for the first 30-60 minutes I really enjoyed it. But I only enjoyed it because I thought they were a pretext for the wisdom to come. How do you set up a deliberate practice session?What are the experiences of a seasoned practitioner?What are the pitfalls? What are the areas that really gives a return on your investment of time, sweat and effort?But nothing so far.I'm returning the book. A huge disappointment from someone that probably had a lot of experience to share.
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Ingmar Lindström
- 08-29-16
Great insights and grand plans
Great narrator, science backed information and visions for the future. I recommend it to anyone wishing to better themselves and the ones around them.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Anonymous User
- 08-15-20
Long but necessary...
This was a great listen!... I really learned a lot from the contents of the book... the theme is a simple one but how many of us believe it?... that, is the very reason that the authors time and again made the statement about how deliberate practice trumps talent, opportunity etc... talent is over rated... yes, the authors do talk about deliberate practice in many different variations... but that is needed... I’m truly a believer of this beautiful theme proposed by the author... and the narrator did a superb job... hats off to the team!... please read this book if you want to get a feel about how to excel in almost ANYTHING!!!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Kindle Customer
- 05-02-20
Mandatory for everyone who whiches to excel
Everybody, and especially teachers, professors and coaches should read this book. It ought to be mandatory :)
-
Overall
- Mama
- 09-26-19
Amazing all over
The narrator 5/5
The book 5/5
Really felt i learned a lot from this book.
Super exciting from start to end
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Amazon Customer
- 10-02-16
The road is long.
Yes, the road is long, but know this: you can only improve your skills, you can never improve your self, for your self is the one who observes improvement (or the lack of it.)
Enjoy your work and redefine it as play because if you set out to improve a skill with a lot of stress and the need to improve you will enivitably contaminate all that you do and seek with negative vibes.
It is therefore wise to learn who you truly are before you learn any other subject. This may seem Needlessly esoteric but it will save you much unnecessary stress and trouble in the long run.
Peace and love.
19 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- USER
- 08-18-16
Great research findings but no decent structure
What disappointed you about Peak?
The author is correct in providing many research findings and stories about how many people from a few fields achieved their "PEAKS". However, if you are not from one of these fields or are not trying to copy other peoples stories then you may struggle to find any underlying concept other than what is already obvious and you already know.In my opinion the book lacks a good structure.
At the beginning of every chapter I was excited because the author briefly explains a good concept but then rather than strengthening and guiding the listener on that concept he just keeps criss-crossing between countless examples and inside examples, he would then drill into many different concepts, terms, many many more examples in my opinion makes the reader lose contact with the original concept the chapter is meant to cover.
The author also repeats many examples many times and drills down to the same examples. Perhaps he was trying to look at them from different angles but he should have thought that listeners haven't had the same exposure to these subjects like he has so listeners would struggle to relate the information overload to their own fields, goals or even the concepts described at the beginning of the chapter/book.There were times I had to check the status of my Audible player because I felt like it has rewound to a previous chapter.
Would you ever listen to anything by Anders Ericsson again?
Yes, I have no disrespect to the author. He clearly knows what he's talking about. In my opinion, if he improves the structure with a curious but non-expert audience in mind the book will be much greater.
What about Geoffrey Beevers’s performance did you like?
Overall a very good narrator. The only (very) minor complaint is he pronounces R in some words with too much weight for my preference.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Peak?
I would improve the structure of the book with a curious but non-expert audience in mind. I would also remove repetitions of some examples and unnecessary drilling-ins into highly scientific words and reduce the number of unnecessary scientific words and lists of them that only proves the author has read a lot of books. These things have only lengthen the book because people who read a book about "Peak" wouldn't want to learn fancy scientific words or lists of fancy things that scientists do. I personally expect an author of this kind to understand the complex things and explain those in layman terms to readers like me. After-all I am not a scientific researcher.
22 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Reviewing dad
- 03-31-17
A thought provoking and inspiring book
Listened to this over 8 or 9 days. It's profoundly affected my thinking and as a parent, teacher, coach, trainer and learner, I'm fizzing with enthusiasm for implementing its lessons.
6 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- rjj
- 10-16-17
tedious and pointless
This is more of an academic study than a helpful guide. To summarise: it is easy to reach a plateau so practice and study with a goal to continually improve. That's it. A far better book is "The Practicing Mindset" which is actually applicable and much more than a pointless thesis.
16 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- InTheBeginning
- 11-28-17
Purposeful and focused it is not
if you want a book that spends 12 hours trying to explain what an hour or two should do, then this is the book for you. Why do authors do this? Do they think they can charge more just because it is several hours longer than it should be? i feel like billing them for my time.
12 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Quinn
- 11-14-16
These are the guys that wrote Gladwell's rhymes
Empowering. The best way to improve examined. Weakness: doesn't answer the question fully about what environmental factors supercede practice and doesn't consider the work world much. Overall worth a listen, very well read and laid out arguments in a meaningful fashion
5 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- dsodonoghue
- 10-29-16
Deliberate practice
This book describes one of the most important insights of the last half century and provides both evidence and anecdotes that strongly support its conclusions. The narration is clear and delivered at a very comfortable pace. I have strongly recommended this book in all formats to friends and family.
5 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Amazon Customer
- 05-03-17
Excellent Read!
I have the book and the Audible file to listen to when driving. Provides a very good overview of the Deliberate Practice concept. A good mixture of theory and practice makes for a rewarding read and listen!
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Mr. P. A. A. Banjo
- 06-13-16
A life changing book. I highly recommend it
This is a life changing book that dispels many myths around talent, genius, savants and others. It has caused me to embark on a quest of self improvement with more rigour.
8 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- MuffinMan
- 05-28-17
Challenging all our assumptions and beliefs
This book is intriguing, interesting and disrupts the beliefs of talent as portrayed and propagated heavily by the media. It has challenged me to consider how what I do in life and business should be improved.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Joshua
- 01-22-17
Outliers barely skimmed the surface.
Peak provided a much deeper look into mastery and expertise than I had imagined. I'd listened to Ericsson talk in podcasts and heard much of what others had learned from his work but this book cleared up a lot of the information superbly. A couple of chapters felt like brainwaves, especially the key one on building mental representations.
A great book for anyone interested in how we can learn effectively, and particularly those seeking any kind of excellence.
The narrator was fantastic, except that whenever he would quote anyone they'd sound American, but a sort of unintelligent sounding American. Which missed the mark completely in a number of instances. But perhaps it was only jarring compared with the rest of his eloquently British narration throughout the book.
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Ken Craig
- 02-14-17
Stick with it
The listener will need to break through the early thresholds of the annoying over-articulated narration and the repetition of the content for the first 4 chapters. But stick with it and this book pays huge dividends.
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- The Nautrual
- 05-28-16
Awesome, liberating, inspiring
This book put to the sword many of the myths that have held me back and allowed me not to try. It enabled me to start challenging myself to at 53 to start learning mandarin and write a book. Let's see what it helps u do. Listen to what Anders says and U too will believe in ur ability too revolutionize yourself and the world of those who surround you. Listen enjoy, practice and just watch what happens! 😳😊
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Chris Gorton
- 08-11-17
persevere to be rewarded
A book well worthwhile staying with as the conclusion brings it all together. Definitely practical and of use to me, my team, and above all my children.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Robert Gronbeck
- 11-13-16
best practice for becoming or coaching experts
listened to thrice and still continue to soak up the knowledge. Research, stories and really useful points to direct your training to improve as much as you want.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Kindle Customer
- 02-17-20
Decent
I would like this book more if it weren't for the narrator's annoying way of saying "decade." Ericsson's book is decent but repetitive and lacks much content in terms of actionable tasks for deliberate practice.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Belinda
- 06-02-19
Found it too repetitive
There are certainly some nuggets in this book but I just couldn't concentrate and get passed the repetitiveness.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Anonymous User
- 06-11-18
Very well written, researched and delivered book
This book was engaging, challenging, motivating and eye opening on many levels for me. I feel empowered with the knowledge of how to develop expertise. There were enough real life examples and studies to feel confident of the truth of this subject. Now its up to me to put in the hard yards... If ever there was a book that should be implemented to be understood, this is the one.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Andrew Weekes
- 03-05-18
Excellent Approach to Development
I felt engaged throughout this whole book. Each section brings new insights on practice and the value of practicing in the right way. Highlights practice is much more than just the 10000 hours concept.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Amazon Customer
- 02-01-18
A fascinating look into deliberate practice
I couldn’t agree more about the focus the education system should put towards skill based rather than knowledge based training and purposeful practice.