Does practice make an Olympian? Not by itself
- Written by Brooke Macnamara, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University
We’ve all heard that “practice makes perfect,” or at least that “perfect practice makes perfect.” Is this true?
Some would unequivocally say “yes.” In 1993, psychologist K. Anders Ericsson and colleagues proposed the deliberate practice view, which suggests that high-quality practice – deliberate...