Reply To: Discussion – “The Talent Code”

[Kai K]

Now regarding the 10,000 hour rule. John the Colombian and I were debating this last week: Who came up with this? I can't find anyone attributed to the origin of this.

Dr. K. Anders Ericsson

One of the core observation of Ericsson’s research is that expert performance seems to take a minimum of 10 years or 10,000 hours of ‘deliberate practice,’ progressively more challenging, and expert coaching, even with people labelled by others as ‘prodigies’ (see Ericsson, Krampe, and Tesch-Römer 1993). As Ericsson, Prietula and Cokely (2007) describe, repetition is not enough:

http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson.dp.html

http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/05/20/talent-a-difference-that-makes-a-difference/

Myelin research by R. Douglas Fields

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2007/03/02/sports/1194817108368/the-brains-behind-talent.html

Attachments

• The Making of an Expert.pdf (81 KB)
• Fields2.pdf (97 KB)

Kai