You can have all the talent in the world put only persistence will give you the ability to become a world beater, ironically though talent can only be born from thousands of long hard and repetitive hours of practice.
Take for instance a study carried out by an educational phycologist whose work had convinced him that geniuses were made and not born. With his wife’s help they decided to turn there three daughters into chess champions, the girls studied at home with there house filled with books on chess. Two of the daughters became grand masters while the third being less passionate for the game still ended up being ranked the sixth best woman player in the world.
The same can be said for all pursuits in life like learning to hear and avoid mistakes in music or fine-tuning the swing of a golf club. Champion golfer of past, Arnold Palmer produced an amazing shot once to win a major tournament, later a reporter said to the golfer “That was a lucky shot!” Palmer replied “Yes it seems the harder I practice the luckier I get.”
So the adage goes paint a thousand seagulls and only then can you truly say you can paint a seagull.
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