JHi pip

For some reason, Tiger Woods hasn't stumbled into Alexander Technique yet as a solution.

Feel English I know what he is talking about. Read my comment please

Most of the factors you mention are skills that are formed through intense learning. Quite often this learning is done early in life and in a way that make people, even the object itself, to forget that it happened. Kids are playing and once it was believed that they just were whiling away their time while they waited to become adults and learn things for real. Today we know that playing is learning - true for lion cubs and puppies, true for human children. I think Ronaldo likes to have the image of someone who does not practice hard, but how true is it? How true has it been throughout his whole life? How does he even define "practice" - it is enough that he does not see his childhood futsal playing as practice. If you read the book, you will see that Coyle does not claim that genes and other physical factors don't play a role, on the contrary. But it has been common belief for so many years that other factors are rather insignificant - ok, add "the right, encouraging environment", like Mozart who got proper education by his father, and so the cliché picture is complete. Truth is, that not everybody can be number one. It is sad, however, that so many can only count to one. What is interesting about Coyles research, or rather summary of research he has witnessed, is that it encourages people to develop more, not just say "ok, so I have no talent - I've better give up" and then leave their dreams. We are many, many, many who are not very interested in becoming No.1, we may just wish to reach our own potential instead of give up or struggle forever with ineffective practice.

@Araz Hajiyev, you are missing the point... It's not just practice, the type of practice that makes the difference in your skill level. You could spend less hours of practice but your practice must challenge you. If you and me practice same stuff say , " baseball" which I have never played in life. However if both of us learn the basics but have the same amount of practice time, I would do better if I was challenged with fast paced ball and practice my swinging intensively because I had somehow trouble hitting the ball and missing it. Now if we were do the test I would beat you just because challenged in the practice in a difficult way than you did. Even though the number of hours that we got to practice the same. Some soccer players are better than others because their practice challenged them extraordinarily and they focus on mastering that mistakes or their deficiencies and then move onto mastering the next skill.