Works
- The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance, Psychological Review, 1993
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A psychologist who, with K. Anders Ericsson and Clemens Tesch-Römer, argued from studies of violinists and pianists that expert performance comes from years of deliberate practice: effortful activity designed to improve specific aspects of performance.
Caveat: A 2014 meta-analysis by Brooke Macnamara, David Hambrick, and Frederick Oswald found that deliberate practice explains a modest share of the differences in performance, and a 2019 replication of the violinist study found a smaller effect than the original.