I thought this article might be of interest here:
Practice Doesn't Always Make Perfect
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It takes many thousands of hours of hard work to get to the top—yet time alone is not enough if you lack the other attributes necessary in your discipline, according to a study published online in July in Psychological Science.
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It's one of those things that I think may not surprise people - that there's more to many disciplines than simply hard word - but it's curious to see studies appear to confirm that. After all, it is common in writing advice circles to cite the 10,000 hour rule. (Not that the study denies the rule that you have to work hard to get good at something, but it would seem to suggest that you should work out whether you have whatever else it takes before you start.)