Road To Excellence By Ericsson K.A. (Editor) (Book)

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. ''...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 Ericssons 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 Preface. 1. The Acquisition of Expert Performance: An Introduction to Some of the Issues 2. The Role of Practice and Coaching in Entrepreneurial Skill Domains: An International Comparison of Life-Span Chess Skill Acquisition 3. Deliberate Practice in Sports: What Is It Anyway? 4. The Acquisition of Musical Performance Expertise: Deconstructing the ''Talent'' Account of Individual Differences in Musical Expressivity 5. The Acquisition of Medical Expertise in Complex Dynamic Environments 6. Perceptual and Memory Processes in the Acquisition of Expert Performance: The EPAM Model 7. Expertise in Reading 8. Creative Expertise: A Life-Span Developmental Perspective 9. The Childhoods and Early Lives of Geniuses: Combining Psychological and Biographical Evidence 10. The Rage to Master: The Decisive Role of Talent in the Visual Arts 11. Changing the Agency for Learning: Acquiring Expert Performance 12. Expert Performance and the History of Science 13. Capturing Expertise in Sports 14. Laboratory Experimentation on the Genesis of Expertise 15. Costs of Expertise Author Index Subject Index

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ISBN	9780805822328
More	152 x 227 mm, 382 pp, several ill.

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