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by Arthur Worsley
M.A. Psychology, Oxford. McKinsey Alum. Founder & Editor at TAoL.

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1. Who Was Anders Ericsson?
2. The Best Anders Ericsson Books of All Time
3. More Books Like Anders Ericsson's Books
4. Best Anders Ericsson Quotes
5. Wish There Was a Faster/Easier Way?

Who Was Anders Ericsson?

Anders Ericsson (October, 23, 1947 – June 17, 2020) was a Swedish psychologist and Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University who was internationally recognized as a researcher in the psychological nature of expertise and human performance.

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The Best Anders Ericsson Books of All Time

Why these best Anders Ericsson books and not others? To stay objective, I rank all my book recommendations by a combination of what’s most loved (Goodreads rating), what’s most popular (Goodreads review count) and what’s proven timlessly relevant (first publication date).

This isn’t a whimsical list. It’s a data-driven, crowdsourced collection of the best Anders Ericsson books ever published as decided by book lovers like you.

And if you think something's missing? I LOVE book recommendations so if there are any other books by Anders Ericsson that you think deserve mentioning, email me and I’ll be sure to include them in the next round of updates.

Until then, here are the best Anders Ericsson books of all time...

Best Anders Ericsson Books: The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
1. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance - K. Anders Ericsson
Published 2006 // 901 pages // Rated 4.3 over 200 reviews on Goodreads
Best Anders Ericsson Books: Peak
2. Peak - K. Anders Ericsson (FREE Summary)
Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
Peak is a practical, fact-based primer on the primacy of purposeful and deliberate practice in expert performance - by psychologist and scientist, Anders Ericsson, and science writer, Robert Pool.
Published 2016 // 304 pages // Rated 4.2 over 14,200 reviews on Goodreads
Best Anders Ericsson Books: The Road to Excellence
3. The Road to Excellence - K. Anders Ericsson
The Acquisition of Expert Performance in the Arts and Sciences, Sports, and Games
Published 1996 // 384 pages // Rated 4.0 over <100 reviews on Goodreads

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Best Anders Ericsson Quotes

Here are some of the best Anders Ericsson of all time...

"The reason that most people don’t possess these extraordinary physical capabilities isn’t because they don’t have the capacity for them, but rather because they’re satisfied to live in the comfortable rut of homeostasis and never do the work that is required to get out of it. They live in the world of “good enough.”"

- Anders Ericsson, Peak
Best Anders Ericsson Quotes: The reason that most people don’t possess these extraordinary physical capabilities isn’t because they don’t have the capacity for them, but rather because they’re satisfied to live in the comfortable rut of homeostasis and never do the work that is required to get out of it. They live in the world of “good enough.”

"So here we have purposeful practice in a nutshell: Get outside your comfort zone but do it in a focused way, with clear goals, a plan for reaching those goals, and a way to monitor your progress. Oh, and figure out a way to maintain your motivation."

- Anders Ericsson, Peak

"If you never push yourself beyond your comfort zone, you will never improve."

- Anders Ericsson, Peak

"You have to keep upping the ante: run farther, run faster, run uphill. If you don’t keep pushing and pushing and pushing some more, the body will settle into homeostasis, albeit at a different level than before, and you will stop improving."

- Anders Ericsson, Peak

"Learning isn’t a way of reaching one’s potential but rather a way of developing it."

- Anders Ericsson, Peak

"The best way to get past any barrier is to come at it from a different direction."

- Anders Ericsson, Peak

"Even the most motivated and intelligent student will advance more quickly under the tutelage of someone who knows the best order in which to learn things, who understands and can demonstrate the proper way to perform various skills, who can provide useful feedback, and who can devise practice activities designed to overcome particular weaknesses."

- Anders Ericsson, Peak

"This is the basic blueprint for getting better in any pursuit: get as close to deliberate practice as you can. If you’re in a field where deliberate practice is an option, you should take that option. If not, apply the principles of deliberate practice as much as possible. In practice this often boils down to purposeful practice with a few extra steps: first, identify the expert performers, then figure out what they do that makes them so good, then come up with training techniques that allow you to do it, too."

- Anders Ericsson, Peak

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