How much does an athlete need to practice to become truly elite? What should it involve?  Should it be fun?  Can everyone become a great athlete if they just practice enough?  In this episode, I focus on the most well- known theory in this area called Deliberate Practice, popularized as the 10,000 hour rule.
Technically Challenged: Review of the Gazepoint GP3 Eye tracker and software http://www.gazept.com/product/gazepoint-gp3-eye-tracker/
Links to articles discussed:
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance
Outliers: The Story of Success
Wrestling with the nature of expertise: a sport specific test of Ericsson, Krampe and Tesch-Romer's (1993) theory of deliberate practice
The Developmental Activities of Elite Ice Hockey Players
Annual age-grouping and athlete development: a meta-analytical review of relative age effects in sport
Routledge Handbook of Sport Expertise
 
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Credits:
The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
Paul Collins Beat – Working Too Hard
Josh Woodward – Effortless
The Willing – Better
The Ettes – Crown of Age
Beans & Bullets - Love Machine
 
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