Ben Carter
speaker
694 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2013
last heard Aug 2018
Ben Carter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But it's a hopeful message, isn't it?
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Try hard enough and you will succeed.
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But wait.
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That was a study of a small group of violinists.
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This is David Epstein, who last year published a book called The Sports Gene.
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So David Epstein thinks that the study of Berlin violinists was flawed.
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He also thinks Ericsson's 1993 paper has been simplified, chiefly by Malcolm Gladwell, whose hugely popular book Outliers includes a chapter called The Ten Thousand Hour Rule, making him largely responsible for introducing the idea to a mass audience.
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However, Erickson has distanced himself from the phrase the 10,000-hour rule, and in 2012 he became so perturbed by the way his original paper had been characterised that he wrote a rebuttal paper, which questioned Gladwell's interpretation of his work.
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What do you have to say about that, Malcolm?
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Malcolm Gladwell.
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One of the difficulties with assessing whether expert level performance can be obtained just through practice is that most studies are done after the subjects have reached that level.
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What would be great is if we could follow the progress of someone with no innate talent at a particular discipline who just chose to complete 10,000 hours of deliberate practice in that discipline.
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Remember Dan McLaughlin, the hopeless golfer?
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Dan McLaughlin.
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Four years from now, we'll let you know how he got on.
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David Epstein thinks he has a chance, but argues that professional sports stars seldom prosper unless they possess natural ability and learned skills.
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He cites baseball, where a study showed that the average player had 2013 vision, as opposed to 2020.
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What that means is that they see from 20 feet what most people could only see clearly at 13 feet.
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He uses a computer analogy.
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