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# Peak: Your guide to getting better at anything

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Deliberate practice: your path to extraordinary performance In Peak , psychologist Anders Ericsson, whose research inspired the famous “10,000-hour rule,” reveals what truly drives mastery - and it’s not talent. Drawing on three decades of much-admired, myth-shattering research, Ericsson shows that focused, purposeful practice can unlock exceptional skill in anyone. Drawing on countless case-studies of musicians and athletes, surgeons and students, Peak offers actionable strategies to improve learning, motivation and performance. Ericsson's revolutionary methods will show you how to improve at almost any skill that matters to you, and that you don't have to be a genius to achieve extraordinary things. Engaging, evidence-based and empowering, it’s the ultimate guide to achieving potential in work, sport and life. ‘Anyone who wants to get better at anything should read Peak’ Fortune ‘This book… could truly change the world’ Joshua Foer ‘Groundbreaking... brilliantly useful’ Daniel Coyle ‘Powerful... actually shows us how to get better (much better) at the things we care about’ Seth Godin

Review: Great booi - Best book I have read in a while. Wish I had read it sooner in my life - especially when I was at university. Highly recommend
Review: Amazing resource if you wanna learn anything - I've read quite a few books similar such as 12 week year, atomic habits etc. those all pretty much say same thing (wake up early, get the work done blah blah). But with this book you actually walk away feeling like you learned something new to apply to your life and practical advice on how to implement it. If you're a coach/parent too I'd highly recommend picking this up to set your children/students up for the future

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| Best Sellers Rank | 25,215 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 70 in Self Help Memory Improvement 336 in Scientific Psychology & Psychiatry 389 in Psychological Schools of Thought |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,325 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great booi
*by B***G on 30 January 2026*

Best book I have read in a while. Wish I had read it sooner in my life - especially when I was at university. Highly recommend

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing resource if you wanna learn anything
*by T***O on 20 January 2025*

I've read quite a few books similar such as 12 week year, atomic habits etc. those all pretty much say same thing (wake up early, get the work done blah blah). But with this book you actually walk away feeling like you learned something new to apply to your life and practical advice on how to implement it. If you're a coach/parent too I'd highly recommend picking this up to set your children/students up for the future

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "If you want to improve in chess, you don’t do it by playing chess"
*by G***N on 28 April 2019*

Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool present a very accessible summary of the former’s work with elite performers in various disciplines with lessons for those of us with more moderate ambitions. First the bad news, if you are trying to acquire expertise then there is no silver bullet substitute for time spent at the coal face. The authors debunk the myth of the effortless virtuoso performance - beneath the surface the swan has paddled like crazy to get there. But the other side of that coin is that lack of 'innate' ability is no bar to moderate or better skills acquisition in many disciplines. Assuming de minimis mental and physical attributes then practice will make perfect, or at least half decent. But what kind of practice? The authors correct Malcolm Gladwell’s much quoted but erroneous interpretation of their work in his book ‘Outliers’ which suggested that simply 10,000 hours of ‘naive’ practice would secure top billing at Shea Stadium. Their prescription is ‘deliberate practice’ which is focused effort, guided by an appropriate coach, progressively challenging yourself out of your comfort zone. ‘potential is an expandable vessel….Learning isn’t a way of reaching one’s potential but rather a way of developing it’. Measurement, goals and feedback are vital. The ‘Top Gun’ method of close to the limit simulation followed by debrief is presented as another example of this process. Mental representations, the ability to recognise patterns and spot when something is out of sync are crucial. But they aren’t created just by repetitive practice at the same level. Hence the comment above, that top chess players spend a significant amount of time not playing but studying chess problems from the grandmasters's classic encounters….re-creating their decision making. I have always held that to be true in the similarly cerebral game of Bridge…the best players have the best memories to spot hands they or others have played before. I was intrigued to learn that IQ seems not to correlate with peak performance…that high IQ might be useful for ease of uptake, but quickly the slow starters recognise that practice is their golden ticket and ultimately it is the power of practice that wins through. That doesn’t square with my reading elsewhere that IQ trumps practice. Certainly I would intuitively expect that if you are blessed with high IQ, high commitment and the magic formula of deliberate practice then you would be benefitting from a force multiplying effect. I need to dig some more on this. I was also intrigued to hear that effort was discipline specific…practice in one sphere bestows no particular advantage in another….which begs the question how useful it is for anyone to memorise 400 digit numbers. I am just starting to read about fluid and crystallised intelligence, so once again…more research necessary. In the second half of the book the relevance for more routine skills like education and management are explored and the authors recognise that this is where the real potential of their thinking lies. They suggest baking ‘deliberate practice’ into the routine of work experiences such as meetings and presentations. They also give a taster of some dramatic results in the teaching of physics. This book whets the appetite - there are surely many more wide-ranging applications ahead. With the challenge of the digital transformation and the need to acquire new skills in a variety of disciplines quickly and efficiently, and the possibility of on line and ‘smart’ learning delivery mechanisms, working out a way of packaging progressive, deliberate practice which focuses on demonstrable skills has real resonance.

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