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Psychologist Anders Ericsson on The Science of Expertise

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

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The Importance of Motivation, Drive and the Long Game

Alecad: We need to reconceptioize the focus here on developing independent performers. Parents of music prodigies and ere able to get to perform very at a very high level, but once they are making other transition into adult musicians. And it turns out that when you're starting, you know, maybe spending ten minutes on something where you would be training some little aspect, but then the rest of the day your child can do whatever they want. That goes so much against this idea  that you wanto actually help the child develop and build up within themselves those representations that allow them now to beIndependent.

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