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Psychologist Anders Ericsson on The Science of Expertise

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

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Is Early Training Predicting Success?

i spent three years or two years in berlin, and at that time, you know, it was wall and an e, but the east germans. I got a chance to talk to some people who knew about the east german system,. which was better understood here than the russian system. And my sense is there are certain things like bellat according to sort of the classical view of a ballet dancer,you can be too tall, you can be too short. There can be other body size related issues. But my sense is that what they were do ing, at least, wasn't formalized... i have not seen compelling evidence that suggests that people can really be picked based

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