Peak

This book reveals the concepts of deliberate practice and how you can use it to get better at anything you do. I highly recommend it.

A good book which breaks the concept of relating expert performance against natural talent or inborn talent. Writer explains how individuals could apply right training to become experts in their respective fields.

This book has a compilation of research works.The structure of of the book is quite smooth which gives readers a comfort of reading.

The writer is researching the experts and talent for last 30-40 years and this book is gist of all he has found. No wonder it packs so much value. It is useful for sports people, artists and musicians. But it is also useful for professionals. It tells you how to improve your expertise using deliberate practice. In a nutshell it is ...you practice something just outside your comfort zone, you analyze the results, get feedback and then tweak it and try again. You keep doing it. Getting outside comfort zone and getting immediate feedback are two important keys to deliberate practice. Without either of these two your practice is not considered "deliberate".This book may change how you look at your own learning and personal development. The concepts outlined in this book may take you to next orbit.

Eric Anders provides a compelling inside view of what goes into making expert performance. The ideas about neuro plasticity, mental representations and deliberate practice revolutionise performance outcomes when applied.

Why this book is just a MEH! –1. It talks about deliberate practice in just one chapter.2. There are many irrelevant studies mentioned which seem too much.3. The latter part of the book seems like a story book where it talks about people.4. It seemed like a filler as most of the book is filled irrelevant studies and stories.5. I didn’t understand the point of the latter chapters, they seemed unnecessary.6. Talks very little about effective skill development and repeats the message throughout the book.The long version-There was always an ongoing belief that talent is innate, that it comes from pre-programmed functionality at birth, it can't be developed. This book breaks that myth along with many other myths surrounding talent and skills. But there's a catch, the book is awfully long and filled with unwanted studies in every chapter and the core message gets lost because of it. I found myself literally skimming the final 60 percent of the book. It was a drag-fest. The studies mentioned were tedious to read and almost 81 percent of every chapter is filled with either stories or studies. I understand that an author needs to mention certain studies and a few anecdotes to prove his point, but this book is filled with unnecessary stories and cumbersome studies. When I picked this book, I wanted a practical guide to deliberate practice. But the book only speaks about it in one chapter. Rest of the book was irrelevant to me. There are some parts where the book is quite good. It breaks many presupposed presumptions that people have about skill development. This book mainly talks about deliberate practice, and how the way you practice can make or break your skill development. There was one chapter which I found helpful; ' The Gold Standard', which clearly mentions how to develop the routine of deliberate practice. Other than that, I didn't take anything away from the book. As I approached the final few chapters the book transformed into a storybook. All the final chapters were filled with stories and the author's main message was confined to the starting and the ending paragraphs. I struggled to finish the book but convinced myself to finish it. Whenever I have to convince myself to finish a book, I can affirm that the book is a drag. I found most of it just a filler to increase the page count. The authors stop talking about deliberate practice midway of the book, and go on talking about talent, brain plasticity and many other irrelevant things.In conclusion, this book may help some people. Some might hate it. But try to read the first few chapters of it and you can come away with all the required knowledge about deliberate practice. The final parts of the book were just filler.

What would you do when someone say especially your parents or friends or anyone you hold dear that you won't excel in physics or maths or cricket or chess because you're innately dull in that subject or sport? I knew what I did.. I took them upon their words and left those things which threatened to expose my vulnerabilities by rationalizing myself with excuses such as I'm not talented in this area or Even if I worked hard what use would be there when I knew I couldn't excel in it. Yes I sometimes worked hard to overcome some of my weaknesses but it was just mindless repetition rather than analyzing and working on what I was doing wrong. You know the result- despair and dismiss.I have read quite a few good books which helped me along my way to form habits like 'Mini Habits' by Stephen Guise or motivating books like 'Feel the fear and do it any way' by Susan Jeffer.These are excellent books but what I found the difference in the 'Peak : How all of us can achieve extraordinary things' and others is that the former is theoretically and practically more concrete & more advanced in making us understand what it means to become an expert and how habits ( read practice in the book) are the most extraordinary things one can develop which can outdo any transient motivation or supposedly innate talents of others.The one negative I found is that the some of the examples got too repetitive. Maybe they wanted to build effective mental representations of what becoming expert is really like through reinforcing by repetition but it became tedious after sometime.Overall a really-must book for anyone who wants to be or their children to be the best in their domains through concrete practices rather than going blindly.

liked everything: the lessons ingrained in the experiements, the analysis, the findings, the objectiveness of the approach.I would want such work to reach more, through various mediums.

As a parent and a sports coach, this book is a great reference and an excellent tool, as it proves that anyone can achieve anything they set out to do, it completely disproves the "natural talent" belief that we have all been lead to believe, which apparently seperates the most successful people from the rest. Ultimately, with the right mindset and using the principles of deliberate practice, anyone can become an expert in whatever field they desire.

It is a soft cover lightweight edition, good for me that am reading for my master, so I can carry it to read anywhere. Extremly cheap and got here before the estimated date and in perfect conditions.

If you're feeling sort of glum this is a great book to read. It's never too late to pursue your dreams and this book shows you how other people have succeeded.

This book tells a compelling story about the depths of human potential and its accessibility to us all, not just the hand full of experts or top performers in every field. It's concepts can be applied to develop ground breaking methods to move the frontiers of every field. It's message is relevant for anyone wanting to improve their own abilities, wonderfully helpful for parents and extremely useful for educators of all kinds. I gave it five stars for the simplicity yet thorough research-backed storytelling.

Buen libro, bien documentado, con un mensaje elaborado de que hace más quién quiere que quien puede. Explica porque algunas personas mejoran continuamente y llegan a ser los mejores, sin que tengamñn mejores condiciones innatas.