Psychology of expertise
Anders Ericsson
1947 – 2020
Deliberate practice requires a task at the edge of capacity and feedback close enough to the act to be usable. Most senior roles supply neither.
Read alongside: Shape
- Start with
- Peak (2016)
- Where they resist the book
- The research comes from domains with clear feedback — music, chess, sport. Leadership has none of that clarity, and the transfer is contested.
Works worth the time
Peak · 2016
With Robert Pool. Deliberate practice stated for a general reader, including what it requires that most work does not supply.
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Expertise degrades without feedback that can wound.
Deliberate practice requires a task at the edge of capacity and feedback close enough to the act to be usable. Most senior roles supply neither, which is why experience and judgement diverge with seniority unless something is deliberately built to keep them together.