Practice, practice, practice

I just read a very interesting article. The main purpose of the article was to compare learned response versus innate response. To sum up the conclusion; to become an expert (in anything) it takes time.
The time is used to practice and to learn specific cues made by opponents, and to adapt to specific tasks through repetition. Researchers Simon and Chase developed the ten year rule in 1973. The ten year rule stipulates that a 10-year commitment to high levels of training is the minimum requirement to reach the expert level. This has been documented in a number of areas including music, math and of course athletics. Another researcher, Erikson, conducted a study on skill acquisition in 1996. He concluded that “with few exceptions, level of performance was determined by the amount of time spent performing a ‘well defined task with an appropriate difficulty level for the particular individual, informative feedback, and opportunities for repetition and corrections of errors”.
In another study done by Weiss and Chaumeton in 1992, it was suggested that mastery of a craft was more motivational than the actual outcome of an event and those who focused on learning practiced more than those who focused on wining. Learning is more motivational than winning.