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The Road To Excellence - the Acquisition of Expert Performance in the Arts and Sciences, Sports, and Games (Paperback)
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The Road To Excellence - the Acquisition of Expert Performance in the Arts and Sciences, Sports, and Games (Paperback)
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Excellence and the highest levels of performance in the arts and
sciences, sports, and games have always been an object of
fascination to both scientists and lay people. Only during the last
20 years have scientists studied these levels of performance in the
laboratory in order to identify their mediating mechanisms.
Contrary to the common belief that innate talents are the critical
factors for exceptional performance, investigators have found that
acquired skills, knowledge, and physiological adaptations in
response to intense practice are the primary mechanisms, mediating
the highest levels of performance.
This is the first and only book to examine "how" elite performers
effect their exceptional accomplishments. The world's leading
researchers on expert performance and creative achievement review
theories and recent findings from many different domains of
expertise on how experts optimize improvement in their performance
and eventually attain excellence. Elite performers are shown to
have engaged in deliberate-practice activities specifically
designed to improve their performance from an early age. By age 20
they have often accumulated over 10,000 hours of practice The
essential elements of deliberate practice, such as specific goals
to improve performance, successive refinement through repetition,
feedback and instruction, are explicated for different domains.
Although the content of practice tasks will necessarily differ from
domain to domain, investigators have found invariant
characteristics for the optimal duration of practice sessions,
maximal amounts of daily practice, the length of intense
preparation (around 10 years), and ages of peak performance. Some
of the book's chapters extend the review to the acquisition of
everyday-life skills such as reading, to the performance of teams
of experts, and to the development of creative achievement,
geniuses, and artistic child prodigies. The book concludes with
commentaries by several outstanding scientists in psychology,
education, and history of science who discuss the generalizability
of presented ideas and raise issues for future issues.
EXTRA COPY...It could be said that striving for excellence is what
characterizes humanity, or perhaps what characterizes humanity at
its best. Why do so few individuals ever reach the highest levels
when so many start out on the Road to Excellence? In this book, the
world's foremost researchers of expert performance in domains as
diverse as sports, medicine, chess, and the arts explore the
similarities and differences in the extended and strenuous Road to
Excellence taken by the successful individuals in each domain.
Their findings will intrigue and inspire readers who are themselves
driven to achieve or who simply want to better understand the
processes involved.
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