{"id":18405,"date":"2025-09-15T17:26:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=18405"},"modified":"2025-09-15T17:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:26:30","slug":"deliberate-practice-what-separates-the-merely-good-from-the-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/deliberate-practice-what-separates-the-merely-good-from-the-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Deliberate practice: what separates the merely good from the great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe\u2019s just a natural\u201d is what people always say when trying to explain the greatness of a Tiger Woods or Pete Sampras. This belief that you have to be \u201cborn\u201d to the sport is both commonplace\u2014and wrong.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>A recent article in the Harvard Business Review by some noted researchers totally debunks the myth of \u201cthe natural.\u201d* Studies by more than 100 scientists consistently and overwhelmingly proved this: experts are always made, not born.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-teaser\"><b><a title=\"Permanent Link: Deliberate practice: what separates the merely good from the great\" href=\"\/general\/deliberate-practice-what-separates-the-merely-good-from-the-great\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the rest of this post here<\/a><\/b>\u00a0(506 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)<\/div>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post, make sure you\u00a0<a href=\"\/feed\/\">subscribe to my RSS feed<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe\u2019s just a natural\u201d is what people always say when trying to explain the greatness of a Tiger Woods or Pete Sampras. This belief that you have to be \u201cborn\u201d to the sport is both commonplace\u2014and wrong. A recent article in the Harvard Business Review by some noted researchers totally debunks the myth of \u201cthe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-therapies","category-general-health-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}