Practice doesn’t always make perfect – that’s why you’re not in the Olympics | Martha Gill
Don’t put your faith in the 10,000-hour rule – some athletes are born with talents the rest of us will never haveStefan Holm was told he was too short to be a high jumper. But by the time he won Sweden a gold medal in the 2004 Olympics, he had honed himself into the perfect projectile. It was the result of a 15-year obsession: his whole life had been pulled into alignment with this goal. If he wanted to stop on page 225 of a book, he would push himself to page 240, in order to train
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