The Keys to Teaching "Old Dogs" New Tricks

In this Rule Breaker Investing podcast, David Gardner is highly pleased to interview Dr. Anders Ericsson, one of the world's foremost experts on expertise. His work has been cited in multiple best sellers, including Moonwalking with Einstein, Outliers, and How Children Succeed. It also was the basis for an idea that Malcolm Gladwell popularized -- the "10,000 Hour Rule," which posits that it takes that much practice to reach mastery of a skill. Of course, as Ericsson has oft repeated since then, there's a lot more to mastery than that.

In this segment, they cover questions about learning new skills at both ends of the age spectrum -- when we're young, and when we're old. On the one hand, says Ericsson, pursuit of mastery can be a lifelong effort. On the other, there are so many ways we could improve how we teach kids in America.

A full transcript follows the video.

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