paper · K. Anders Ericsson · tradition: expertise-research

Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-Römer, Psychological Review 100(3). Expert violinists’ practice logs: about four hours a day of effortful practice was the sustainable ceiling; more led to exhaustion. The source of both Ch 3’s focused-hours figure and, via Gladwell, the ‘10,000 hours’ slogan.

The book’s stance. cited in Ch 3 for the focused-hours ceiling; the compression of this paper into ‘10,000 hours’ is itself a worked example of the book’s pipeline.

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