“Training an average athlete for a set number of hours yields far more results than training an élite athlete, which, in turn, yields greater results than training a super-élite athlete. Put differently, someone like me is going to improve a great deal with even a few hundred hours of training. But within an Olympic team tiny differences in performance are unlikely to be the result of training.” The New Yorker’s Maria Konnikova examines the role practice plays in our achievement levels: Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect. While I’ve been practicing about five hours a day for many years, I must admit that the first time I opened up 75 browser tabs, it felt pretty natural.

+ Yes, we’re talking about practice.