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Philip Roscoe · Academic and author
Reviewing “Peak: Secrets from The New Science of Expertise”, by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
It seems strange to call a book about self-improvement “Peak”. Perhaps the publishers balked at “Uphill Struggle”, though that would have been much more fitting for a tome in which Anders Ericsson – the psychologist behind Malcom Gladwell’s “10,000 hour rule” – and science writer Robert Pool channel the Calvinist spirit to insist that greatness is possible for everyone. So long, that is, as we work at it…
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This review appeared in Times Higher Education, 9-15 June 2016
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