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by the way, if anyone is actually interested in skill and expertise, what it is and what it takes to really be good at something, K. Anders Ericsson is the worlds leading expert on the topic and just released a new book called "Peak". Next to my desk, i have his other books (which he participated in/edited)
The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
Expert Performance in Sports
The Road to Excellence
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Toward a General Theory of Expertise
The Talent Code is also a good general read on outliers when it comes to performance and how they became so much better than everyone else (including the last 2 that beat her down).
.....This is a personal passion and obsession of mine. I train daily and I train people to fight (striking only) and I can take them to a level of skill now in 6 months that many won't ever see in years of hard work. It's largely just a question of really understanding how the motor system works and how the brain learns and carefully creating and testing the processes, measuring results and adjusting.
McGreggor can't catch up to Mayweather any more than Rhonda Rousey can catch all the great female strikers out there - including the last couple which kicked the shit out of her.
There is no such thing as a prodigy.
There is no such thing as natural talent.
There is only time, repetition, the quality of feedback and correction, coupled with the individuals determination to get it right.
Though a person can certainly be un-coordinated (suffering from some degree of ataxia or something), there is no such thing as a "General Motor Ability" making one person better at a movement or skill than another.
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