<div><b>From the world’s reigning expert on expertise&nbsp;comes a powerful new approach to mastering almost any skill.</b><br><br>Have you ever wanted to learn a language or pick up an instrument, only to become daunted by the task at hand? Expert performance guru Anders Ericsson has made a career studying&nbsp;chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens.&nbsp;<i>Peak</i>&nbsp;condenses three decades of original research to introduce an incredibly powerful approach to learning that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring a skill.&nbsp;<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;<div>Ericsson’s findings have been lauded and debated, but never properly explained. So the idea of expertise still intimidates us — we believe we need innate talent to excel, or think excelling seems prohibitively difficult.&nbsp;<div>&nbsp;<div><i>Peak</i>&nbsp;belies both of these notions, proving that almost all of us have the seeds of excellence within us — it’s just a question of nurturing them by reducing expertise to a discrete series of attainable practices.<i>Peak</i>&nbsp;offers invaluable, often counterintuitive, advice on setting goals, getting feedback, identifying patterns, and motivating yourself.&nbsp; Whether you want to stand out at work, or help your kid achieve academic goals, Ericsson’s revolutionary methods will show you how to master nearly anything.</div></div></div></div></div><br>