💪🏼If we train more, we become better. But does a lot of training equal success?
👨🏻🔬In biology we often refer to certain things as "required, but not sufficient". In that sense, some practice or training is required by anybody that wants to be successful, but it's not sufficient to be successful. For most professions and sports alike, there is quite a bit of talent required to make it to the top level.
🤔 So if practice is important, but far from everything, what does that mean for the individual? Impossible to tell. There's a huge overlap between people who trained for years to become pros, people who haven't trained for years and still became pros and people who have trained for years and haven't become pros.
🏋🏻♂️So the only way to figure it out is giving it an honest shot. Whether you make it or not is likely not entirely in your hands, as uncomfortable as that may sound, but you'll emerge as a better athlete either way.
References:
Ericsson, K. A., Krampe, R. T., & Tesch-Römer, C. (1993). The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance. Psychological Review(100), 363-406.
Baker, Joseph, Jean Côté, and Janice Deakin (2005). “Expertise in Ultra-Endurance Triathletes: Early Sport Improvement, Training Structure, and the Theory of Deliberate Practice.” Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 17:64–78.
Further reading:
The Sports Gene | The New York Times Bestseller". David Epstein. Retrieved 2019-07-08
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