Deliberate practice

provides the key to excellence in a diverse array of fields, among which are chess, medicine, auditing, computer programming, bridge, physics, sports, typing, juggling, dance, music, etc.

If you want to understand the source of professional athletes talent, look for their practice schedules.

Almost without exception they have been systematically stretching their athletic abilities, with the guidance of expert coaches.

Its the honing of the craft.

Here’s what struck as important about deliberate practice: it’s not obvious.

most individuals that start as active professionals … change their behavior and increase their performance for a limited time until they reach an acceptable level

Beyond this point, however, further improvements appear to be unpredictable and the number of years of work is a poor predictor of attained performance.

If you just show up and work hard, you'll soon hit a performance plateau beyond which you fail to get any better

this is why most people are stuck.

Although this is exiting. If you can figure out how to integrate deliberate practice into your own life, you have the possibility of blowing past your peers in your value, as you’ll likely be alone in your dedication to systematically getting better.

That is, deliberate practice might provece the key to quickly become an expert