Summary Of A Star Is Made By Ericsson

In the article “ A Star is Made” is about how Anders Ericsson believes that you need to practice over and over again to become better at a skill. The article starts off by saying that elite soccer players are usually born in the first three months. They believed that because during the winter babies tend to have a higher oxygen capacitor that parents tend to conceive children during soccer mania. Which does not matter when they are born Ericsson says that its the amount of time and energy you put in something you get a greater outcome. Ericsson asked himself a question. “ when someone is very good at a given thing, what is it that actually makes him good?”, which led him to conduct an experiment. His experiment was on memory, he had a subject work for twenty hours on memorizing a series of numbers, the results were that the subject went from memorizing seven numbers to twenty, but Ericsson concluded that it wasn't up to the memorization it was about the moment of time you put into it and practice. By 200 hours the subject memorized more than eighty numbers. He was only able to do that was because of the of the time spend on it, which is called “ deliberate practice”.
Ericsson gives an example if you hit the ball in tennis until your arm pops out of your socket. It takes more than once to improve on a skill. Ericsson also mentions you have to do something you will love because if not you won't put enough effort into it and would do a sloppy job. Many people tend to do what they do not like because they do not think they are good at something, but all you need is to practice more and put time into practicing every single day, that you need to set a