Several years ago I posted excerpts from a Peter Gzowski book that took research conducted on chess grandmasters and extrapolated it to sports performance. This article was called The Mind of a Champion.

A recent issue of Scientific American took this analogy much further. In an article called ‘The Expert Mind – Become Good at Anything’, the author looks at how studies on chess grandmasters have revealed how people become experts in other fields, including music, mathematics, and sports. If you are interested in the science behind becoming an expert, check out the August 2006 issue of Scientific American.