As it turns out, many athletes became world champions with minimal practice.Ericssons work is viewed with great scepticism amongst the scientific community.It is proven that deliberate practice is NOT the most important factor.It is also proven that genes are very important in achieving expert performance.

Did you realise that its all wrong, and deliberate practice is not what actually makes you good at things? Its a poorly defined concept, open to interpretation, and none of the core defining elements can be quantified so as to actually ascertain to what extent one is practising "deliberately". Its a rubbish concept....

Excellent style

He’s been practicing

Thank you! More coming this summer :)

Yes, will eventually get to that. Have lots of videos to make, but it's hard while I'm in school. Will post more frequently in the summer

For the meantime, I think the following are must reads: (This is a good order in which to read them) - Mindset by Carol Dweck - Grit by Angela Duckworth - Peak by Anders Ericsson - Choke by Sian Beilcok - Altered Traits by Daniel Goleman - Why Meditate by Matthieu Ricard - The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge - 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson - Rethinking Positive Thinking by Gabriele Oettingen - Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman

@@masteryblueprint_ Good Luck with your studies and appreciate you listing the books.

Thanks! If that is an overwhelming list, stick to the first 6 I listed. They are the most important for any athlete/person wishing to become masterful at something

I'm doing my best :) Next video should be out shortly. During the summer, I will have less school/work, so I'm aiming to upload lots then

hmm not really, I recommend you check out the book Peak by Anders Ericsson

Let's do a call, I think I can help. I assume you're playing soccer. What's your email?

Harder to learn skills when older since brain is more plastic when younger. But it's still certainly possible. Even a skill like perfect pitch. Some studies showing that it can still be learned later in life, albeit with significantly more time and effort.

Then you are doing it wrong

@@FocusMrbjarke that is not the case. It has been conclusively shown that practice does not account for difference in ability. Why do two people undertaking identical practice regimes have orders of magnitude difference in the rate of skill aquisition. What takes one of them a day, takes the other a month to learn.Same hours, same focus, same instructor, same regimen, yet two completely different outcomes?

@@pinny492 It probably because one is a beginner and the other more accomplished at what they do. The better you are at what you are doing the less time you have to spend practicing due to better mental representations.

@@FocusMrbjarke however, 2 people with the same skill level still never advance at a similar rate.For example 2 kids who have never kicked a ball before go to socker training.Both have the same coach, do the same drills, show up to practice the same amount, practice at home the same, yet one of the two will end up much better than the other.why is this? It is impossible to replicate elite level performance in most individuals, no matter what training they undertake.My own observations show clearly that changes to training style only ever have very small influence on skill aquisition. Once you observe a slowly progressing student, no matter who takes over training them, or no matter what alterations they make to their training regimes, they invariably remain poor learners.In fact, i would say if the student is not remarkably skilled within 2 years of first contact with the chosen field of endeavour, there is very little chance they will ever reach elite ranks, regardless of any measures they or any coach/tutor/mentor employs.The idea that anybody can become expert at anything is totally false.There is simply no evidence to support this line of thinking.

@@pinny492 Well there is a lot of things that determine if someone reaches the top like grit, growth vs fixed mindset and if you are working on a skill that is rarer and valuable for example but I would say there is published more about Deliberate practice and there is more that support it than what you propose. Can you provide specific studies that support what you claim?