Summary Of A Star Is Made By Anders Ericsson

In the article, A Star is Made, Anders Ericsson, a 58-years old psychotherapy professor at Florida State University, tried to answer the question “When someone is very good at a given thing, what is it that actually makes him good?”. To answer this question, he conducted an experiment, about memory training. This experiment involved a person hearing a series of number and then repeating it. After a few trials, he concludes that memory itself is not genetically determined, but instead though a lot of practices and training "He kept improving, and after about 200 hours of training he had risen to over 80 numbers". With these results, he moved on to another process called deliberate practice.
Deliberate practice is a highly structured activity