Three points 1) This sounds a lot like the "Deliberate Practice" espoused by the (imho excellent) Study hacks blog http://calnewport.com/blog/?s=deliberate+pra

Three points 1) This sounds a lot like the "Deliberate Practice" espoused by the (imho excellent) Study hacks blog http://calnewport.com/blog/?s=deliberate+practice http://calnewport.com/blog/?s=deliberate+practice 2) Also similar to Steve Yegge's recommended approach to learning to type. (another great read) 3) Is it just me or is the silvers.org site a gold mine of great ideas? Like this, for example: My vision of the road to mastery: - start with the fundamentals - get a solid foundation fueled by the understanding of the principles of your discipline - expand and refine your repertoire, guided by your individual predispositions - while keeping in touch, however abstractly, with what you feel to be the essential core of the art What results is a network of deeply internalized, interconnected knowledge that expands from a central, personal locus point. When everyone at a high level has a huge amount of (technical) understanding, much of what separates the great from the very good is deep presence, relaxation of the conscious mind, which allows the unconscious to flow unhindered. He gets a lot of his writing posted on HN. Do you think he deliberately practices writing or is that just natural talent? After reading this story of 15 years to overnight success it really makes me wonder.