It’s a compelling idea: With a fair amount of concentration and hard work, we can become experts in any field we choose. Malcolm Gladwell popularized the theory in his 2008 book, Outliers. Based off ...

Dr. Anders Ericsson’s bestselling book Peak: Secrets From the New Science of Expertise is based on years of rigorous academic study on becoming the very best at anything. It lays out a clear blueprint ...

We've long been eager to believe that mastery of a skill is primarily the result of how much effort one has put in. Extensive practice "is probably the most reasonable explanation we have today not ...