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easily? I knew he was studying, going
to a chess club, but what had
happened, really, underneath?”
This is the question that drives Ericsson’s
career: How do extraordinary
achievers get to be so great at what
they do? Ericsson has searched for answers
in fields as diverse as chess, tennis,
and classical piano.
In a now-famous experiment, he and
his colleagues compared three groups
of expert violinists at the elite Music
Academy in West Berlin. The researchers
asked the professors to divide the
students into three groups: the “best violinists,”
who had the potential for careers
as international soloists; the
“good violinists”; and a third group
training to be violin teachers rather
than performers. Then they interviewed
the musicians and asked them to keep
detailed diaries of their time.
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