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Psychologist Anders Ericsson on The Science of Expertise

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

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Is There a Model for Improvement?

mike: Have you sorted out some sort of model for a acquisition or expertese or path of mastery? I think i don't find that to be a likely useful question. mike: If somebody can come up here with a lot of genetic constraints and show here that you can base an predictions about the success of individuals in domains, when you exclude body size factors, i'd be really interested to see it. When i've been looking, there's just no evidence. There isn't these genetic constraints where you would say, either you have this jean, or you're going to havea, you know, only a one % chance of succeeding here in a, becoming a world

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