Robert Pool
In The Leading Brain, Friederike Fabritius and Hans Hagemann explain several ”powerful science-based strategies for achieving peak performance.” For example, these are their key points in Chapter 5, “Unleash Your Unconscious”: o Your unconscious brain runs the show. Even when you…
Read MoreThe Leading Brain: Powerful Science-Based Strategies for Achieving Peak Performance Friederike Fabricius and Hands Hagemann TarcherPerigee/Penguin Random House (February 2017). Here are several science-based strategies that can drive peak performance Although by no means an authority in the multiple dimensions…
Read MoreIn The Leading Brain, Friederike Fabritius and Hans Hagemann explain several ”powerful science-based strategies for achieving peak performance.” In Chapter 4, Fabritius and Hagemann offer these key points: o Our brains prefer the path of least resistance. In order to…
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Thanks to research conducted by Anders Ericsson and his associates at Florida State University, we now know that achieving peak performance depends on a combination of factors: o Luck o Natural Ability o Temperament o Commitment o Expert Supervision and…
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In The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing, Michael J. Mauboussin rigorously examines a common mistake when making predictions: failing to recognize luck’s existence or miscalculating its influence, “and as a consequence we dwell too…
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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise K. Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool An Eamon Dolan Book/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 12016) Why some people are amazingly good at what they do…and why so many others aren’t In “The Making…
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I have just read and will soon review a new book, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, co-authored by K. Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt April 2016). It will be one of the most…
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The Eight Major Components of Flow
Here is a Wiki briefing on a concept that is the focus of Mihaly Csikszentmihályi‘s eponymous book, published in 1990. “In positive psychology, flow, also known as being ‘the zone,’ is the mental state of operation in which a person…
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