December 02, 2024

Expertise: Brooke Macnamara

32 minutes

We've just finished the fiction series, so it's time for another meta episode!

Dr. Brooke Macnamara is an associate professor of psychology at Purdue. She works on expertise, skill acquisition, and achievement, and we have a great conversation about how expertise research works (and where it falls short), talent identification, and much more.

Links:

Dr. Macnamara's faculty page

The Skill, Learning, and Performance Lab

Deliberate Practice and Performance in Music, Games, Sports, Education, and Professions: A Meta-Analysis

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

The Tyranny of Talent

Credits:

Theme music: “Puzzle Pieces” by Lee Rosevere. Available for use under the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CC BY 4.0 license⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Free Music Archive⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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