NEURONFIRE Podcast: An interview of Professor Anders Ericsson by David Bach, M.D.
K. Anders Ericsson, PhD. is a Swedish psychologist and the Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University. Professor Ericsson is internationally recognized as a researcher in the psychological nature of expertise and human performance. Listen to David Bach, M.D. discuss the facts and common misunderstandings of Professor Ericsson’s research.
Ericsson studies expert performance in domains such as medicine, music, chess, and sports, focusing exclusively on extended deliberate practice (e.g., high concentration practice beyond one’s comfort zone) as a means of how expert performers acquire their superior performance. Critically, Ericsson’s program of research serves as a direct complement to other research that addresses cognitive ability, personality, interests, and other factors that help researchers understand and predict deliberate practice and expert performance.
“There is a correlation here between those activities that push you out of your comfort zone and those activities that actually product changes to your performance.” - Anders Ericsson, Ph.D.
