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Over time, then, by learning more about what goes into expert performance in various fields and by creating a generation of students primed to take advantage of that, we could produce a new world, one in which most people understand deliberate practice and use it to enrich their lives and their children’s. What kind of world would that be? To begin with, it would contain far more experts in far more fields than we have today. The societal implications of this would be enormous. Imagine a world in which doctors, teachers, engineers, pilots, computer programmers, and many other professionals honed their skills in the same way that violinists, chess players, and ballerinas do now. Imagine a world in which 50 percent of the people in these professions learn to perform at the level that only the top 5 percent manage today. What would that mean for our health care, our educational system, our technology? The personal benefits could be tremendous as well. I have spoken very little of this here, but expert performers get great satisfaction and pleasure from exercising their abilities, and they feel a tremendous sense of personal accomplishment from pushing themselves to develop new skills, particularly skills that are on the very edges of their fields. It is as if they are on a constantly stimulating journey where boredom is never a problem because there are always new challenges and opportunities. And those experts whose skills relate to some sort of performance—the musicians, dancers, gymnasts, and so forth—report getting great pleasure from performing in public. When everything goes well they experience a level of effortlessness similar in many ways to the psychological state of “flow” popularized by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. This gives them a precious “high” that few people other than experts ever experience.
Peak
Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
When competing goals get activated in your brain, it responds by inhibiting one of them, thus providing a goal shield. In other words, the losing goal doesn’t just get ignored—it gets completely deactivated.
Succeed
Heidi Grant Halvorson Ph.D. and Carol S. Dweck
Metaphorically, she has to find herself and her true spiritual center. Her journey back home—or back to that essential center place within—is the mythical journey that we all take in life, whether we’re aware of it or not. It’s about the quest for meaning, a sense of purpose, love, and connection. Life is about finding our way to this place and living it energetically on and off the courts, no matter what “storms” may happen.
The Mindful Athlete
George Mumford and Phil Jackson
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