<story><title>The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance</title><url>https://acesounderglass.com/2019/06/21/epistemic-spot-check-the-role-of-deliberate-practice-in-the-acquisition-of-expert-performance/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seieste</author><text>David Epstein&amp;#x27;s book &amp;quot;Range&amp;quot; offers a different view of expert performance -- that it doesn&amp;#x27;t work very well in domains with ambiguity (such as a hidden state), or when a variety of skills are required.&lt;p&gt;In other words, expert performance applies to piano and chess very well, but a diversity of backgrounds is more important for things like management or R&amp;amp;D more broadly.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance</title><url>https://acesounderglass.com/2019/06/21/epistemic-spot-check-the-role-of-deliberate-practice-in-the-acquisition-of-expert-performance/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jimhefferon</author><text>Ericsson&amp;#x27;s popular-market book &lt;i&gt;Peak&lt;/i&gt; has much more than the paper (there are many citations in the back).&lt;p&gt;I remember in particular a duscussion about music students practicing for an optimum, or maybe maximum, number of hours per day.  I&amp;#x27;m in math and there are a number of people in math who also say four is the limit; a quick google found this for example  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;theweek.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;696644&amp;#x2F;why-should-work-4-hours-day-according-science&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;theweek.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;696644&amp;#x2F;why-should-work-4-hours-...&lt;/a&gt;.  FWIW.&lt;p&gt;Also well-konwn are the first two paragraphs of Littlewood&amp;#x27;s Miscellany, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gwern.net&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;math&amp;#x2F;1986-littlewood-littlewoodsmiscellany.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gwern.net&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;math&amp;#x2F;1986-littlewood-littlewoodsm...&lt;/a&gt;, p 189.</text></comment>