A review by josh_paul
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Robert Pool, Anders Ericsson

5.0

My one complaint is that the marketing people at the publisher clearly dickered with the (sub)title. Nothing in this book is a secret. It's a summary of academic research from the last ~30+ yrs on skill acquisitions (much of which was done by Ericsson), written for a popular audience. There are no secrets, and nor is there any "new science of expertise." There's a research program in psychology that's been around for decades and has discovered some interesting stuff. That should be sufficient to interest people.