LEARN POWERFUL SECRETS TO MASTER ALMOST ANYTHING! Anders Ericsson | Inspiration | Business | Career | Self-Help | Inspire - a podcast by Michael Sandler, Jessica Lee

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If you’ve ever wanted to improve at a skill, sport or job or become the best at whatever you do, but have been told you’re not talented enough, didn’t start early enough, or that you don’t have 10,000 hours to spare, then do we have the show for you!


Today we’ll be talking with Anders Ericsson, a preeminent leader in new science of expertise, and the researcher behind Malcom Gladwell’s 10,000 hour rule from his book Outliers. He’s also the author of a brand-new paradigm shifting book I believe and hope will set the stage, for backbone of education and performance for decades to come.


Today we’ll talk about expertise, what it is, where it comes from, how you can achieve it, what we all can learn from others who have it, how to help develop it in ourselves and our children, and why we can almost all dramatically improve our performance in almost any area we put our minds and hearts too.


That plus we’ll look at homo erectus and homo exercens, Maverick, Viper, and Iceman, Blue Bunny Ice-Cream, Paganini and the Broken Strings, and What a Banana Monk and a Pot have to do with anything.


Questions and Topics Include:



  1. Expertise – how you can achieve

  2. How we can develop expertise in almost any area we put our hearts and minds in

  3. What does Mozart have to do with expertise

    1. Why Mozart wasn’t really ‘born’ with his music skills

    2. Why perfect pitch can be trained (particularly early on)



  4. How a study of Japanese children showed they were all able to learn perfect pitch

  5. What powerful lesson we can learn from the Sakihabara study

  6. How learning Mandarin as a first language can help you as a musician or singer

  7. What is the story of Steve Falloon

  8. What our memory can be expanded much more than we ever thought

  9. How we can improve our memory

  10. What is the new science of expertise?

  11. What’s the typical approach we take to practice or learning and why doesn’t it get us very far?

  12. What can we learn about Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 hour rule (business, career) that came from Anders Ericsson's work.

  13. Why doing what you already know how to do is NOT very effective practice

  14. What is the right sort of practice?

  15. What’s the importance of getting outside of your comfort zone

  16. How to improve endurance running performance

  17. How to improve running speed

  18. How the right training helps the body to adapt tremendously

  19. What is purposeful practice and feedback?

  20. Why tasks require the “correct” action.

  21. Why the 10,000 hour rule needs to be corrected

  22. Why practice doesn’t make perfect

  23. Why experience is not necessarily an advantage or the answer

  24. Why feedback is so important for improvement

  25. How do we harness adaptability

  26. What do the brains of London Cabbies have to do with anything?

  27. What do Maverick, Viper and Iceman (and the Top Gun Program) have to do with anything?

  28. How to refine and entrench your new skills

  29. Why it’s so important to have a situation where you can make decisions and get immediate feedback

  30. How to simulate tests (such as GRE, LSAT, SAT or otherwise)

  31. Natalie Coughman Olympic Medalist – how she had a breakthrough moment in training by shifting her focus

  32. What’s wrong with the concept of “will power”

  33. How do you build your motivation up?

  34. What’s the importance of a teacher or a mentor?

  35. Why parents should find an activity they can do with their children

  36. Why having an expert on your side is so important

  37. Why having a parent who supports and helps the child is so important

  38. How important belief in your child is, even if they don’t display talent

  39. The story of Olympic Runner Gunder hagg

  40. Why belief that you can do something is so powerful

  41. Why we should all make the assumption we can do something (until really proven otherwise)

  42. Why giving children an early experience of what training can do for their performance is so important

  43. Laslo Polgar and Clara and their experiment with their kids

  44. Stages to improve our performance

  45. First improve the motivational aspect – get motivation first

  46. What does it mean to “get serious”

  47. Why a good parent wants to start with 15-30 minutes and gives good feedback

  48. Why the worst thing you can do is to push someone well beyond the point at which they can concentrate

  49. Why you do not want to burn someone (especially a child) out.

  50. What’s missing from Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hour rule

  51. Why the Beetles 10,000 hours is inaccurate or doesn’t explain their composition.

  52. Why sleep and rest is so important – especially for experts

  53. Why napping is so important for performance

  54. Why shorter chunks are so much more valuable for training

  55. Why you’re never too old to change, but why having an advisor is so helpful to help you gradually make the change

    1. What are some of the things that would motivate someone to begin making the changes

    2. Why the age ceiling for change is a myth



  56. What we can learn from violinist Paganini playing on a single string

  57. Why childhood prodigy’s are not what we think

  58. What we can learn from the University of British Columbia and an experiment then did

  59. Why deliberate practice means deliberate improvement

  60. Why we should all have a goal or a project


World's Reigning Expertise Expert Anders Ericsson Shares Secrets to Mastery, Expertise, and Peak Performance For Adults & Children, How to Improve at Anything, Why Talent’s a Myth & Why Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 Hour Rule Needs Updating. Business | Career | Psychology | Health | Self-Help | Motivation | Inspire


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