The more that we practice a sport, the better we play it.  Practice is a vital part of our athletic success.  In Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, a book about highly successful people, he cites numerous studies that show that becoming a master at playing a sport, a musical instrument, or chess requires at least 10,000 hours of practice.  In sports terms, we’d define a master as a top-level professional or medal-winning Olympic athlete.  Other levels of excellence – such as high school …

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