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Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Your ceiling is not fixed. That’s the claim at the heart of Anders Ericsson’s research, and it inverts how most people think about talent: learning isn’t a way of reaching your potential, it’s the way you build potential in the first place. The human brain is plastic — it physically rewires itself in response to the right kind of training — and that adaptability, not any inborn gift, is what separates experts from everyone else.

Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool on SummaryShelf

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