Robert Pool’s Peak is available on Audible as a 10 hrs 0 mins unabridged audiobook, narrated by Sean Runnette.
Publisher’s Summary
From the world’s reigning expert on expertise comes a powerful new approach to mastering almost any skill.
Have you ever wanted to learn a language or pick up an instrument, only to become too daunted by the task at hand? Expert performance guru Anders Ericsson has made a career of studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak condenses three decades of original research to introduce an incredibly powerful approach to learning that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring a skill.
Ericsson’s findings have been lauded and debated but never properly explained. So the idea of expertise still intimidates us – we believe we need innate talent to excel or think excelling seems prohibitively difficult.
Peak belies both of these notions, proving that almost all of us have the seeds of excellence within us – it’s just a question of nurturing them by reducing expertise to a discrete series of attainable practices. Peak offers invaluable, often counterintuitive advice on setting goals, getting feedback, identifying patterns, and motivating yourself. Whether you want to stand out at work or help your kid achieve academic goals, Ericsson’s revolutionary methods will show you how to master nearly anything.
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 10 hrs 0 mins
- Publisher: Audible Studios
- Release year: 2016
- Audible category: Business & Careers / Career Success / Health & Wellness
Listener Ratings
Peak holds an average listener rating of 4.7/5 from 4821 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.7/5
- Story: 4.6/5
- 5-star ratings: 76% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
5/5 stars — “Great book that dispels many myths”
So many people have a fixed mindset that they are good at this or bad at that, and that they cannot achieve the highest level of performance in certain areas based on certain genetic limitations. The reality from the research is quite different and this book cuts through all the myths to describe what we really know about expert performance and how to achieve it. Anyone can achieve top level performance with the right focus on deliberate practice and this is a liberating fact for all of us that should have a great impact on his we teach and learn.— Chris Wood, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Fantastic and Fascinating! And finally, hope.”
This book is one of my favorite things I’ve found on Audible. It was a little thick at first to get into, which was really helped a lot by the amazing narrator. His delivery makes the comments transparent to a non-scientific reader. I love the concepts expressed in this book, and overall was left with a feeling that, finally, somebody has an answer to the problems plaguing our technological society. By that I mean, the germ of an idea for meaningful educational progress, and meaningful personal progress, in the world we live in today. I highly recommend this read.— Demonsaxe, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Intriguing and Relatable”
The authors answer how people become experts using interesting, inspiring stories of legends and everyday people.— Eric Phillips, Audible listener
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