Like the tennis player and the oboist and the guy who fixes hard drives, we need practice to get good at what we do. There is one difference in medicine though: it is people we practice upon.

...and the biggest difference researchers find between them and lesser performers is the cumulative amount of deliberate practice they've had. Indeed, the most important talent may be the talent for practice itself.

...the most important way in which innate factors play a role may be one's willingness to engage in the sustained training.... top performers dislike practicing just as much as others do, but more than others, they have the will to keep at it anyway.

practice is funny that way. For days and days you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day, you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge and you cannot say precisely how