Reddit reviews Peak

https://www.amazon.com/Peak-Secrets-New-Science-Expertise/dp/1531864880

Its this book, Weldon mentioned it directly on his YouTube channel. Essentially the science is at that people can only be GENETICALLY selected for running and everything else anyone can be good at if you practice enough. To put that in context tho "practice" is more then the effort you put into something directly but also how your raised. So what's percieved as "talent" is a predisposition to a certain task based on your upbringing. Your upbringing is part of your "training", which can amount to years and years of a year start. For someone like say faker, the idea is that the way he was raised since birth predisposed him to the skills he would need to be good at the game or good at training at the game. I'm not sure what the specifics would he but for the sake of argument let's say he like did activities as a child that improved his hand eye coordination or reaction time, or probably played alot of other games ect. His non-league "training" before he ever heard of the game could amount to 1-17 years of extra practice that other pros just cant overcome

This kind of plateau is discussed in Peak by Andres Ericsson. Great book, worth a look. tl;dr version of what he says, your learning methods have hit a limit and you need to change the way you learn. It's normal, and if you ignore it you'll eventually get past it, but you can accelerate the transition by looking at how you're learning. If you don't keep a notebook, start. If you keep a notebook, consider how it might be limiting you, sometimes the brain cheats by letting the notebook be the memory instead of the brain actually retaining what's written down. Are you training and then not thinking BJJ other times of the day, that's pretty huge--I really started learning when I started thinking about BJJ on my commute/lunch hour/etc. Good luck.

I highly recommend the book Peak
It totally shattered my perception of the meaning or even importance of the idea of intelligence, or more specifically, IQ. For instance, the research shows that the best of the chess grand champions have mediocre IQs. Instead he found that committed and purposeful practice was way more critical to being the best at chess. Establishing powerful and instantly accessible mental patterns for a specific skill set is key and that only comes from meaningful repitition.

The only limits you have are the ones you place on yourself. It may not be CS related but if you're interested I'd check out this book written by my favorite Psychologist Anders Erikkson.

To sum it up: if you want to get really good at something you need to practice and you need to practice the right way. With practice you will improve.

If you spend 25 hours a week at school/personal projects (which isn't absurd at all, maybe even on the lower end) over 4 years of your degree (25hrs 52 weeks a year 4 years) you will have accumulated 5200 hours of practice. That's a lot of practice.

Work hard and strive to improve and you will be ok!

Great answer! You have to remember that although you may have the a higher level of knowledge than everyone else, this video is made for a large audience and needs to explain to everyone.

I am a detail guy as well, but I don't think any of our viewers would have stuck around for the video. If you want more details here are a few books I recommend with links to sources: Peak, The Sports Gene.

>You can't control your talent

I'm reading PEAK and he goes into detail on how this statement is not true. Really a great read. I absolutely believe you are in full control of your talent points and training right will get you extra lives.