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Ericsson Paper: Motor learning
The main point in Ericsson et. Al.(1993) is that in order to achieve expert
performance, one must engage in deliberate practice with the explicit goal of
constant improvement. This theory further dismisses to a large extent the role
of genetics, in which Ericsson reasons that there has been no great correlations
between the attainment of superior performance and inherited traits. The
purpose of this paper is to show agreement with Ericsson's theory, but only to
the extent that deliberate practice is just one of many factors which must be
included in order to ga....
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