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There's more than practice to becoming a world-class expert

  • Written by D. Zachary Hambrick, Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University
imageWhat explains the exceptional performance of Stephen Curry?Keith Allison, CC BY-SA

Some people are dramatically better at activities like sports, music and chess than other people. Take the basketball great Stephen Curry. This past season, breaking the record he set last year by over 40 percent, Curry made an astonishing 402 three-point shots...

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