Over 25 years ago published the results of their search for the most effective forms of training
in music, a domain where knowledge of effective training has been accumulated over …

The factors that cause large individual differences in professional achievement are only
partially understood. Nobody becomes an outstanding professional without experience, but …

Grit has been presented as a higher order personality trait that is highly predictive of both
success and performance and distinct from other traits such as conscientiousness. This …

As a part of a special collection in this issue of Academic Medicine, which is focused on
mastery learning in medical education, this Perspective describes how the expert …

Little empirical research exists about highly effective psychotherapists, and none about the
factors that mediate the acquisition and maintenance of superior performance skills (eg …

For nearly a century, scholars have sought to understand, measure, and explain giftedness.
Succeeding theories and empirical investigations have often built on earlier work …

Abstract Twenty years ago, Ericsson, Krampe, and Tesch-Römer (1993) proposed that
expert performance reflects a long period of deliberate practice rather than innate ability, or …

As interest in creativity explodes, it has become more complicated to decide how to best
nurture creativity in our schools. There are the controversial Common Core Standards in …

Every now and then one comes upon a genuinely new idea. Professor Saras Sarsvathy's
idea of effectuation is one such. Effectuation is a refreshingly new look at the old …

Previous research on entrepreneurship as well as goal, social-cognitive, and leadership
theories has guided hypotheses regarding the relationship between entrepreneurial traits …