{"id":24340,"date":"2021-01-27T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=24340"},"modified":"2021-01-29T17:33:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:33:40","slug":"anders-ericsson-deliberate-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/anders-ericsson-deliberate-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Anders Ericsson: Deliberate Practice for Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What fuels creativity and achievement? How does the Anders Ericsson deliberate practice<\/a> strategy help bring success?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Anders Ericsson, deliberate practice is an independent, focused effort on what you’re trying to achieve. This type of strategy encourages creativity and achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep reading for more about the Anders Ericsson deliberate practice strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Creativity<\/strong>, Achievement, and the Anders Ericsson Deliberate Practice Strategy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Research has found that creativity requires 1) solitude and 2) intense concentration.<\/strong> Because these are the preferred work styles of introverts, it\u2019s not surprising that many of the most creative people are introverts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1960s, researchers at UC Berkeley compared a group of extremely creative people, including scientists, engineers, writers, and architects, to a group of less-creative types to learn what drives creativity. They found that the most creative people tended to be independent, individualistic, and shy and solitary as teenagers. Other studies have supported these findings. But what gives introverts a creative edge? The likely explanation is that their preference for working in solitude fuels their creativity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know from the studies of psychologist Anders Ericsson that intense solitary work drives extraordinary achievement.<\/strong> When Ericsson studied violinists, he found that the best spent the most time practicing alone. Ericsson found the same was true for other kinds of high achievers\u2014for instance, for top tournament chess players, serious study alone was the strongest predictor of success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ericsson contended that the key to outstanding achievement\u2014\u201cdeliberate practice\u201d\u2014can only be undertaken alone<\/strong>. According to Anders Ericsson, deliberate practice requires you to identify what you need to learn, work on it, and track your progress<\/a>. It would be harder to focus on improving in the areas most crucial to you if you practiced in a group. (Shortform note: Read our summary of Peak by Anders Ericsson here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This kind of solitary, intense focus on a passion is typical of creative people. Steve Wozniak compared himself to an artist, needing to work alone to control his creation. \u201cI don\u2019t believe anything really revolutionary has been invented by a committee,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Focus on a passion often starts in adolescence\u2014for instance, Wozniak was fascinated by electronics as a teenager and spent hours working on them alone. A 1995 study of 91 extremely creative people found that they were loners as adolescents because their passion made them different from their peers. Examples include author Madeleine L\u2019Engle and Charles Darwin. However, the kind of solitude that drives creativity and achievement is hard to come by in teams and open offices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What fuels creativity and achievement? How does the Anders Ericsson deliberate practice strategy help bring success? According to Anders Ericsson, deliberate practice is an independent, focused effort on what you’re trying to achieve. This type of strategy encourages creativity and achievement. 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