By now it is safe to conclude from many…
By now it is safe to conclude from many studies on a wide vari-ety of disciplines that nobody develops extraordinary abilities with-out putting in tremendous amounts of practice.
— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Ansers Ericsson and Robert Pool
In the book
Where a habit merely automates, a ritual animates — the same action, done with meaning and attention, becomes a generator of feeling and not just efficiency, and like an athlete's pre-shot routine it pulls your focus onto the next play rather than the last one. This is how mastery is actually built: nobody develops an extraordinary ability without enormous practice, the high performers all keep a handful of nonnegotiable trademark behaviors and simply refuse to break them, and the way the masters sustain that practice is by making it a habit, set into the same hour of every day. So here is how to expand your range, deliberately, for the rest of your life. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)