Anders Ericsson

the main gift that these people have is the same one we all have—the adaptability of the human brain and body, which they have taken advantage of more than the rest of us.

from a relatively new area of psychology that can be best described as “the science of expertise.”

Not surprisingly, Bloom reported that very few families could afford to have more than one child pursue this level of performance. Not only is it expensive, but it can be almost a full-time job for a parent to support the student in this pursuit—driving to and from practice during the week, providing transportation to competitions on the weekend, and so on