How do elite performers automate their habits? | Wendy Wood

Practice doesn’t actually make perfect. Here’s the willpower equation necessary for elite athletes and musicians.

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When you start learning a new skill, you have to make conscious decisions and exert continuous willpower to practice and improve.

Only over time does a skill become automatic and transform into a habit that can be performed at a high level.

While practice is important to becoming elite at any particular skill, there are also many other factors at play, such as innate talent and opportunity.

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