Practice makes perfect?

"We instinctively think of talent as something you're born with, as a gift, some divine spark that you have in your genes but that's not how the talent hotbeds treat it, they treat it as an act of construction."

"It flows from the scientific finding that when you operate from the edge of your ability, on the very uncomfortable razor edge of your ability your learning goes up and it doesn't go up just a little it increases quite a lot."

"... whatever task you're trying to do, reaching, failing and reaching again."

"We normally think of that sort of a struggle as being unproductive, we normally think of it as being a verdict on our ability, we can't do it ..." 
 

"There's a lot of fascinating science out there that shows how when you affect someone's identity, when the action of their sport, or their passion or their art becomes linked to their identity you can tap into all kinds of energy that they can put into practice, that they can put into building that skill."

ABC Radio National
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/practice-makes-perfect/3611212

Daniel Coyle, 2009, The Talent Code,  Arrow Books
http://thetalentcode.com/author/