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Steven Kotler || Creativity, Skill-Mastery, and Aging

The Psychology Podcast

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Anders Eriksen's Deliberate Practice

I think we need to bring delir practice back in a more mainstream way, 100%. I love it. One of my biggest ongoing friendly tensions with Anders Eriksen was this idea that delir practice fully explains and accounts for creative thinking and creative behavior. There's three big challenges to his work. The first was mounted by him in reaction to Malcolm Gladwell's work where he was like, look, it's not across the board. It's only in certain really structured environments. David Epstein in the brilliant book, range, mounts a challenge. And then all the flow research says you can get to mastery using flow a lot faster than as long as deliberate practice takes.

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