Speed in sport is not based on innate reaction speed, but derived from highly specific practice.
[Talent] cannot be taught in a classroom; it is not something you are born with; it must be lived and learned. To put it another way, it emerges through practice.
Child prodigies do not have unusual genes; they have unusual upbringings.
Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal [of purposeful practice] is to extend one’s mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one’s capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.
Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.
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