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Deliberate Practice According to Ericsson: The Path to Mastery

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Peter Kolomiets
|March 26, 2026|Updated Apr 13, 2026|8 min read
Deliberate Practice According to Ericsson: The Path to Mastery

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References

  1. Ericsson, K. A. (1993). The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance. Psychological Review, 100(3), 363–406.
  2. Ericsson, K. A. (2016). Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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